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| retire to a cloister; take the veil; retire to a monastery or convent (A month elapsed in this manner, when they were ordered to retire to a monastery or convent, the inmates of which, had been driven out of doors by the fanatical ... Alexander Demidov); enter the convent (Bullfinch); enter a convent | |||
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