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Bernardine  adj.  Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.






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"Bernardine" Quotes from Famous Books



... had married sisters. Mario-Julie and Eugenie Bernardine-Desiree Clary. The feeling of Bourrienne for Bernadotte makes this passage doubtful. It is to be noticed that in the same conversation he makes Napoleon describe Bernadotte as not venturing to act without powers and as enterprising. The stern republican becoming Prince de Monte Carlo ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... Duke of Wharton's death I had from a very good hand—Captain Willoughby; who, in the convent where the duke died, saw a picture of him in the habit. If it was a Bernardine convent, the Gentleman might confound them; but, considering that there is no life of the duke but bookseller's trash, it is much ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... all. They were not wholly idle, but found some little employment in the bringing up of young girls. The Catholic reaction which, aiming at a higher flight of ecstasy than was possible at that time even in Spain, had foolishly built a number of convents, Carmelite, Bernardine, and Capuchin, soon found itself at the end of its motive-powers. The girls of whom people got rid by shutting them up so strictly therein, died off immediately, and their swift decease led to frightful statements of the cruelty shown by their families. ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet



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