canoness
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The nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
The canoness invokes the punishment of the saints against the felony of Mylio; in her despair Eglantine declares that she will turn Bernardine nun the very next day.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
That forty-year-old canoness, with high shoulders and grating voice!
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
There she soon made the acquaintance of a canoness named Günderode, considerably older than herself, though still young, with rare mental endowments and romantic affections.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
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