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
His sister was canoness in an aristocratic order, whose members were permitted to receive visits from their brothers.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
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
Behind rode the father of the bride sunk in thought, and along with him was his pious sister Notburge, the canoness of Nonnenwerth.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
At her side stood her younger sister, a canoness, who was paying her a few days' visit—an amiable lady with a very cheerful temperament.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
