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 feelings towards me he likewise showed us pantomimically, by procuring me a post of canoness, the income of which I very soon began to draw.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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
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.
At breakfast, on the first morning after his arrival, he cut the old canoness to the heart.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip
