Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
nun or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Church, which gave single women in the mission field schools, hospitals, even outlying stations of their own to run—an autonomy unthinkable for mission wives—demanded nunlike austerity in return.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The Church, which gave single women in the mission field schools, hospitals, even outlying stations of their own to run—an autonomy unthinkable for mission wives—demanded nunlike austerity in return.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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I realize that my tank suit is Quaker and nunlike for this place.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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I realize that my tank suit is Quaker and nunlike for this place.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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I realize that my tank suit is Quaker and nunlike for this place.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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I realize that my tank suit is Quaker and nunlike for this place.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Point de Vue ran pictures of her there again last year, standing beside her "inséparable amie," Alessandra Borghese, both princesses clad in the nunlike nurse's uniform of the Dames of Malta.
The Conversion of Gloria TNT Colacello, Bob 2006
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They dress the part, sir, to admiration — a sort of nunlike costume they come in:
The Newcomes 2006
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Some find her boldness off-putting: her working-class style of speech is nunlike.
Archives de la Stan 2005
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Now I'm in the market for a new LBD Little Black Dress, as my current one feels a trifle nunlike, and a pair of pretty black heels to go with it.
Projects Update Cheryl 2005
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