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NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 911 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman) , a member of a community of
women
 , living under vows a
life
  of religious observance (see
MONASTICISM
 ). In ecclesiastical Latin nonnus was used by the younger members of a religious community for their elders, and so, in the
regula
  of St Benedict, cap. 62, Juniores autem Priores suos nonnos vocant quod intelligitur paterna reverentia (Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. nonnus). While nonna has remained as the generic name of a
female
  religious, nonnus has been replaced by monachus and its various derivatives (see
MONK
 ).


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