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

All the voices, the voice of the merciful canoness excepted, demand with Countess Ursine, "Justice and vengeance!"

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

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)

They showed how this would operate immediately upon the fortunes of a sister of the Count, who was on the point of being received as a canoness into one of the noble chapters.

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington

There was Miss Jane Porter, looking like a shabby canoness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various