reverend mother

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What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reverend mother drew Angela to her side, took off the little black silk hood, and laid her hand caressingly on the soft brown hair.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Bodley, in the sketch of his own life, betrays that early book-love which subsequently broke out into that noble passion for “his reverend mother, the University of Oxford.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

“Whatever it be, reverend mother, do we not all, does not every one quake when Madame Ogé comes abroad?”

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

The reverend mother is a dear old thing.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie