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.

That forty-year-old canoness, with high shoulders and grating voice!

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

His sister was canoness in an aristocratic order, whose members were permitted to receive visits from their brothers.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth