Nun vs. Wimple — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nun and Wimple
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Nun
A nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery. Communities of nuns exist in numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, and Taoism.
Wimple
A wimple is a medieval form of female headdress, formed of a large piece of cloth worn around the neck and chin, and covering the top of the head. Its use developed in early medieval Europe.
Nun
A member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Wimple
A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns.
Nun
Any of a number of birds whose plumage resembles a nun's habit, especially an Asian mannikin.
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Wimple
A fold or pleat in cloth.
Nun
A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Wimple
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
Nun
The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Wimple
A curve or bend.
Nun
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, those living together in a cloister.
Wimple
To cover with or dress in a wimple.
Nun
(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
A Buddhist nun
Wimple
To cause to form folds, pleats, or ripples.
Nun
A prostitute.
Wimple
(Archaic) To form or lie in folds.
Nun
A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
Wimple
To ripple.
Nun
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Wimple
A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
Nun
A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
They holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.
Wimple
A fold or pleat in cloth.
Nun
A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
Wimple
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
Nun
The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
Wimple
A curve or bend.
Nun
The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
Wimple
A flag or streamer.
Nun
A woman religious
Wimple
To cover with a wimple.
Nun
A buoy resembling a cone
Wimple
To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
Nun
The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Wimple
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
The wind wimples the surface of water.
Wimple
To flutter.
Wimple
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
Full seemly her wympel ipinched is.
For she had laid her mournful stole aside,And widowlike sad wimple thrown away.
Then Vivian rose,And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws.
Wimple
A flag or streamer.
Wimple
To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.
Wimple
To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
Wimple
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
Wimple
To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere,Her head and face was hid.
With me through . . . meadows stray,Where wimpling waters make their way.
Wimple
Headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
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