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
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.
The canoness and the Bernardine nun step into the enclosure reserved for the litigants.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène
"From my very heart!" exclaimed the canoness, with emotion.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
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 Alger, William Rounseville
