Search for: [Abstract = "The article is devoted to the characteristics of lexis associated with transcendent values that appear in the 16th\-century monastic rule of the Poor Clares and its functions in the text. Thirty one words were extracted from the text. Such a small number \(about 2.7% of the lexicon\) is justified in the pragmatic perspective of a text whose primary purpose is to regulate the external life of the nuns which ensures uninterrupted service to God."]