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
Consuelo knelt before him; he looked fixedly at her, and then, giving a sign to the canoness, she placed his arms on Consuelo's shoulders.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
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
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
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
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