Ursuline

Ursuline [ur-suh-lin, -lahyn, -leen, urs-yoo-] ExamplesWord Origin noun

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

adjective

2. of or relating to the Ursulines.

Origin of Ursuline 1685–95; Saint Ursul(a) + -ine1 Examples from the Web for ursuline Historical Examples of ursuline

You shall enter the convent with as rich a dowry as ever accompanied an Ursuline.

The Golden Dog

William Kirby

The Ursuline Convent was also visited and an address received.

The Life of King Edward VII

J. Castell Hopkins

To-day this fine building, or what is left of it, has become an Ursuline boarding-house.

Rambles in Brittany

Francis Miltoun

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

Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries

William Hogan

The call was answered in the establishment of the Ursuline Convent.

Count Frontenac

William Dawson LeSueur

British Dictionary definitions for ursuline Ursuline noun

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

adjective

2. of or relating to this order

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