superioress

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Mother Mace was superioress of the Hotel-Dieu, but the mainstay of the institution was the well-known Mademoiselle Mance, who, by the aid of Madame de Bullion's benefactions, had founded it in 1643.

From The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)

By a singular institution, he appointed the abbess superioress over the men, who live in a remote monastery, whose superiors she nominates.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

The library is common property, but no one may use or read any book save by permission of the superioress.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

Among other writers' names we find that of Mother Mary Paul de Blaigni, superioress of the Congregation at Troyes, which was really the cradle of Sister Bourgeois' sublime virtues.

From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous

Here Gustave and I were received by the superioress, an elderly woman, with a mild holy face, and a quiet grace of manner which might become a duchess.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)