prioress

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Among the Gilbertine nuns, whom we may mention as a typical order, there were three prioresses, one of whom presided, the other two acting as coadjutors.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

He had a quiet way with the abbesses and prioresses, and with the anchorites and bishops a way of simplicity which was vastly admired in a divine emissary.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

There also was the splendid fireplace of wrought stone, and above it, cunningly carved in gilded oak, gleamed many coats-of-arms without crests, for they were those of sundry noble prioresses.

From The Lady of Blossholme by Haggard, Henry Rider

Other wicked prioresses used sometimes even to pawn the plate and jewels of the convent, to get money for their own private purposes.

From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna

It may be just permissible to add that a comparison of Chaucer's and Marivaux's prioresses will suggest itself to many persons, and should be found delectable by all fit ones.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George