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
The Countess Loulou was a canoness, and Balzac met her while visiting in Vienna; he admired her for herself as well as for her friendship for his Chatelaine.
From Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd
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
They showed how this would operate immediately upon the fortunes of a sister of the Count, who was on the point of being received as a canoness into one of the noble chapters.
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving
"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
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