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

With another sign, he made the canoness understand that she and his father were to kiss his betrothed.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

Thou?" said Quentin, in astonishment—"thou be admitted to the presence of the ladies, and here, where they are in a manner recluses under the protection of the Bishop's sister, a noble canoness?

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

"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 Trollope, Anthony