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He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves containing ornate artifacts and human remains, including the bodies of clergy members and wealthy donors to the medieval priory.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves containing ornate artifacts and human remains, including the bodies of clergy members and wealthy donors to the medieval priory.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for priory
Noun
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The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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The remains of the monastery were found in a field in Derome, in southwest Sweden.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.—
Diana Budds,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
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Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Priory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priory. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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