Abbey tarimas:

/'æbi/

Abbey audio:

Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:

• noun: A monastery supervised by an abbot.
• noun: A convent supervised by an abbess.
• noun: A church that is or once was part of a monastery or convent.

Angliško žodžio naudojimo pavyzdys:

• Item, the said abbot hath alienate and sold the jewels and plate of the monastery, to the value of five hundred marks, _to purchase of the Bishop of Rome his bulls to be a bishop, and to annex the said abbey to his bishopric, to that intent that he should not for his misdeeds be punished, or deprived from his said abbey_.
• The abbey is inhabited by women but overseen by men.
• In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into which the word abbey has passed in this country.
• The abbey was a sanctuary, but only a temporary one.
• You climb & climb & suddenly you emerge at Roncevalles I have to say that I found it as inhospitable as 30 years ago—there are a couple of restaurants, church of Saint James & the old abbey, which is now turned over for lodging pilgrims.

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