TAKE THE VEIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take the veil mean? 

• TAKE THE VEIL (verb)
  The verb TAKE THE VEIL has 1 sense:

1. become a nun

  Familiarity information: TAKE THE VEIL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE THE VEIL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become a nun

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The young woman took the veil after her fiance died

Hypernyms (to "take the veil" is one way to...):

profess (take vows, as in religious order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)