canoness

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For a long time all that was noble and gallant deemed it a glory to love us, us the canonesses.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

I ran to the chapter-house of the canonesses, opened the gate, and lo! there she stood, and looked coldly at me.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

You, canonesses, and you, Bernardine nuns, have come here to demand judgment in the name of the Goddess of Love, whose unworthy representative I am.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

"It is a very small, highly distinguished, excessively strict, and severe order, composed of twenty ladies, canonesses of Saint Joseph."

From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre

The badges of an order of canonesses, which the duke proposed to found, were distributed among the ladies.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)