Nunne
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - nunne
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- nunne
- Add: I. of a Christian woman :-- Þá berád mon þæt wíf þæt hé hæfde ǽr genumen . . . ofer þára biscopa gebod, for ðon ðe heó wæs ǽr tó nunnan gehálgod, Chr. 901; P. 92, 14. Nunnena sanctimonialium, An. Ox. 8, 368. II. non-Christian :-- Minutia hátte án wífmon þe on heora wísan sceolde nunne beón Minucia, virgo vestalis, Ors. 3, 6; S. 108, 16. nunne