#sisterhood a religious society of sisters (especially an order of nuns)
supertype: religious_sect__religioussect__sect__religious_order a subdivision of a larger religious group
member: Sister (Roman Catholic) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God"
member: Beguine (Roman Catholic) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life
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