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Nunnery vs Vicaress - What's the difference?

nunnery | vicaress |

As nouns the difference between nunnery and vicaress

is that nunnery is (archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent while vicaress is a sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.

nunnery

English

Noun

(nunneries)
  • (archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent
  • * 1601 : III.i
  • *:Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
  • (slang, obsolete) a brothel

    • Hypernyms

    * monastery

    See also

    * abbess * cloister * convent * nun

    vicaress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent
  • A female representative
  • The wife of a parish vicar.

    • Quotations

    * Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy's dithy- rambics on morals.

    References

    * Found in the Oxford English Dictionary