Ursuline

[ ur-suh-lin, -lahyn, -leen, urs-yoo- ]

/ ˈɜr sə lɪn, -ˌlaɪn, -ˌlin, ˈɜrs yʊ- /

Roman Catholic Church. a member of an order of nuns founded at Brescia, Italy, about 1537, devoted to teaching.

of or relating to the Ursulines.

Origin of Ursuline

1685–95; Saint Ursul(a) + -ine¹

She was only twelve years old when he married her, he being aged forty-four, and after his death she became an Ursuline nun.

America, Volume IV (of 6) |Joel Cook
On a line with this building is the nunnery, containing 40 sisters of the Ursuline order.

Norman's New Orleans and Environs |B. M. Norman
When between eleven and twelve years of age, Fanny was sent to the school of Ursuline nuns in Quebec, to complete her education.

The American Indians |Henry R. Schoolcraft
I saw the house which stands just as it was when the Ursuline nuns first made it their residence.

Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 |Various

Who, at least in Boston, forgets the destruction of the Ursuline Convent?

Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries |William Hogan

Ursuline

/ (ˈɜːsjʊˌlaɪn) /

a member of an order of nuns devoted to teaching in the Roman Catholic Church: founded in 1537 at Brescia

of or relating to this order

C16: named after St Ursula, patron saint of St Angela Merici, who founded the order