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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 45 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONVENT (See also:Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)  , a See also:term applied to an association of persons secluded from the See also:world and devoted to a religious See also:life, and hence to the See also:building in which they live, a monastery or (more particularly) nunnery . The diminution conventicle " (conventiculum), generally used in a contemptuous sense as implying sectarianism, secrecy or illegality, is applied to the meetings or See also:meeting-places of See also:religion? or other dissenting bodies .

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