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

The canoness and the Bernardine nun step into the enclosure reserved for the litigants.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

"From my very heart!" exclaimed the canoness, with emotion.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

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

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.