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

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.

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

The old canoness, who is seated on his right, provokes his smile.

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