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

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

The old canoness, who is seated on his right, provokes his smile.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip

I am the last to defend a departure from duty," the old canoness goes on, "but in this case the blame really falls partly upon Ada's family.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip

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 Latimer, Elizabeth