mynchen
English
Etymology
From Middle English mynchen, from Old English mynecen, from munec (“monk”). See monk.
Noun
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (obsolete) A nun.
- 1899, William Hunt, A History of the English Church: Hunt, W. The English church from its foundation to the Norman conquest (597-1066):
- Another of these canons orders that the cells of mynchens (sanctimonialium domicilia) were not to be places of gossip, feasting, and drinking, but rather of reading and psalm-singing, than of weaving or sewing fine clothes.
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Middle English
Alternative forms
minchen, minchon, mynchon, mynchonn, mynchoun, mynchioun, myncheon, mynechene, meynchene, mynecene, menecene, munechon, muneche, munechene, munecene
Etymology
From Old English myneċenu.
Noun
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (Christianity) A woman who is a member of a monastic order and who lives in a cloister; a nun.
References
- “minchen, (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 April 2018.
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