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
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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
The title of this book, in the German, is "Der Roman der Stiftsdame," stiftsdame being rendered in this version canoness.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
With another sign, he made the canoness understand that she and his father were to kiss his betrothed.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
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