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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from
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Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)
  , a member of a community of
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women, living under vows a
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life of religious observance (see MONASTICISM) . In ecclesiastical Latin nonnus was used by the younger members of a religious community for their elders, and so, in the
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regula of St Benedict, cap . 62, Juniores autem Priores suos nonnos vocant quod intelligitur paterna reverentia (Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. nonnus) . While nonna has remained as the generic name of a
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female religious, nonnus has been replaced by monachus and its various derivatives (see MONK) .

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