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
When six years of age she was received as a canoness into the noble chapter of Alix, near Lyons, with the title of Madame la Comtesse de Lancy, taken from the town of Bourbon-Lancy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Consuelo knelt before him; he looked fixedly at her, and then, giving a sign to the canoness, she placed his arms on Consuelo's shoulders.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
At her side stood her younger sister, a canoness, who was paying her a few days' visit—an amiable lady with a very cheerful temperament.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
Physically, she had doubled her chin like a canoness.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
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