superioress

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The superioress alone has power to dispense with the rule of silence in case of necessity, as she transacts most of the business, social or legal, of her community.

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

In coming in, and in going away, she always reverently kissed the hand of Agnese de Sellis the superioress, and asked for her blessing.

From The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others by Fullerton, Georgiana

As was to be expected, Francesca strenuously refused to accede to this proposal, and pleaded her inability to the duties of a superioress.

From The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others by Fullerton, Georgiana

When she returned to school, the superioress regretted that she had been allowed to visit Mrs. Baker again, because too much gaiety wasn't good for her, and she was falling off in her studies.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway