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

This year the reverend mother was led to her seat between two nuns, who sustained her feeble limbs.

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

“If you desire to fish, I doubt not our reverend mother will make you welcome to our pond yonder.”

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

There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

It was no bishop or presbytery that consecrated me, but a saintly Cornish woman, whom we children called old Rosie, and who was, indeed, my right reverend mother in God.

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert