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

Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry

The title of this book, in the German, is "Der Roman der Stiftsdame," stiftsdame being rendered in this version canoness.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul

Physically, she had doubled her chin like a canoness.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

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