canoness
Example Sentences
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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
She was a niece of Madame Guyon, a young lady whom they called Madame de la Maisonfort, for she was a canoness.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
"Stay with us, my daughter?" cried the canoness, "for you have a lofty soul and a great heart!"
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
There she soon made the acquaintance of a canoness named Günderode, considerably older than herself, though still young, with rare mental endowments and romantic affections.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
