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Nun

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Nun, in the Bible

Nun (nŭn, nn), in the Bible, father of Joshua.

nun, in religion

nun: see monasticism monasticism (mənăs`tĭsĭzəm, mō–)
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Nun

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Oldest of the Egyptian gods and father of Re, the sun god. Nun represented the dark, turbulent waters out of which the cosmos was churned. Since it was believed that the primeval ocean continued to surround the ordered cosmos, the creation myth was reenacted each day as the sun rose from the waters. Nun was also thought to exist as subsoil water and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile.
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I am a nun from the Spinning Convent,[10] and my mother when she died left me this apple.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
But she should be dressed as a nun; I think she looks almost what you call a Quaker; I would dress her as a nun in my picture.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
"You are going to be a nun," he went on, "in a cell--for life--with a gown and white veil?
The American by James, Henry View in context
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