reverend mother

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What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bodley, in the sketch of his own life, betrays that early book-love which subsequently broke out into that noble passion for “his reverend mother, the University of Oxford.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The reverend mother is a dear old thing.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie

But you must stay with the reverend mother, sweetheart.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Your reverend mother   Is grown a very old woman in two hours.

From The White Devil by Webster, John