Sentence:  Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their <WSD>contemplative</WSD> heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.