canoness
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The nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Condorcet has lived in high society, while his wife, a former canoness, possess the charms, the repose, the instruction, and the elegance of an accomplished woman.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand
His feelings towards me he likewise showed us pantomimically, by procuring me a post of canoness, the income of which I very soon began to draw.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At breakfast, on the first morning after his arrival, he cut the old canoness to the heart.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Ossip Schubin
"If I am ever dean," said Mr. Slope, "that is, were I ever to become so, I should glory in such a canoness."
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
