But the seduction of a Sponsa Dei was not a fashionable pursuit in medieval England, and it was not as a rule lords and gentlemen who hung about the precincts.
Few men would have been bold enough to ravish a Sponsa Dei.
The crime of seducing a nun was always considered an extremely serious one; she was Sponsa Dei, inviolable, sacrosanct.
When and on what days can the Missa pro sponso et sponsa be said, and on what days is it forbidden by the Rubrics?
Sponsa pulchra," beautiful bride, this young woman was, according to the record, and doubtless this was true.
Crashaw's influence also on Patmore, more especially on theSponsa Dei, as well as later on Francis Thompson, is unmistakable.
We can guess fairly accurately its tenor and spirit if we read the prose essay Dieu et ma Dame and the wonderful ode Sponsa Dei, which, happily, the poet did not destroy.
We did not, however, point out the cases in which the nuptial benediction cannot be given, and when the mass pro sponso et sponsa cannot be said.
No doubt sponsa Dei does occur in ecclesiastical language for monialis, but he has not been able to discover an instance where sponsus Dei has been used as an equivalent for monachus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponsa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
