Clarissine

English

Etymology

From French clarissine, from Clarisse + -ine.

Noun

Clarissine (plural Clarissines)

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.

Coordinate terms

Urbanist

Adjective

Clarissine (not comparable)

(Catholicism) Synonym of Clarissan: of or related to the Order of Saint Clare.
- 2019, Attila Zsoldos, The Árpáds and Their Wives‎, page 199:
  ...she returned shortly thereafter to Austria where she lived from 1313 until her death in the Clarissine monastery of Ko:nigsfelden

References

“Clarisse, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2019.

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