Benedictine

noun

Ben·e·dic·tine ˌbe-nə-ˈdik-tən

-ˌtēn

: a monk or a nun of one of the congregations following the rule of St. Benedict and devoted especially to scholarship and liturgical worship

Benedictine adjective

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Neither did her family, including her father Nate, who has diabetes and played college basketball at Benedictine with Loyola coach Jeremy Schoenecker. —

Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025 By 945, the Benedictine sanctuary, St. Cecilia at Montserrat, had been built, attracting Christian pilgrims by the thousands to its isolated perch 4,000 feet above a Catalan valley. —

Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025 Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California. —

Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 To follow the film from the start, head up to the ancient Benedictine Nonnberg Abbey dating to 714, where Maria struggled to become a nun. —

Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for Benedictine