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

Physically, she had doubled her chin like a canoness.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

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

I am the last to defend a departure from duty," the old canoness goes on, "but in this case the blame really falls partly upon Ada's family.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip

Condorcet has lived in high society, while his wife, a former canoness, possess the charms, the repose, the instruction, and the elegance of an accomplished woman.

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John