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
At breakfast, on the first morning after his arrival, he cut the old canoness to the heart.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Ossip Schubin
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
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 Edmund B. d'Auvergne
There was Miss Jane Porter, looking like a shabby canoness.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
