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 d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

"If I am ever dean," said Mr. Slope, "that is, were I ever to become so, I should glory in such a canoness."

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

She was a niece of Madame Guyon, a young lady whom they called Madame de la Maisonfort, for she was a canoness.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules

His feelings towards me he likewise showed us pantomimically, by procuring me a post of canoness, the income of which I very soon began to draw.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von