prioress
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"It was our first time in a room together. We sat at a table as he ate, and the prioress didn't come back so I had to let him out."
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2023
“This could be the prioress, or maybe someone in the Dominican order who is over her, though it is possible archdiocesan officials have weighed in on the matter informally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2021
When “Matrix” opens, Marie, all of 17 years old, is appointed prioress of a dilapidated abbey, founded centuries earlier, where a few nuns remain scavenging for food.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021
“We thought that he was a tremendous individual,” said Mother Anne Brackmann, the prioress of the Carmelite Monastery in Terre Haute, Ind. “And he was welcomed very, very warmly.”
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016
How I have found purpose in being a physician and gained a mother in the prioress Ermentrude.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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