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

Good night, dear and reverend mother; good night and good-bye.

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

Euphrosyne had a strong persuasion, all the while, that she should one day tell her reverend mother the whole.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

I reminded the reverend mother of her promise to me in regard to school, and she told me that she had not forgotten it, that the two years' novitiate was all schooling.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth

The reverend mother put everything at their disposal.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various