prioress
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"She couldn't understand how it had happened because we were in there 24/7 under her watch all the time. The prioress asked how I could have fallen in love with so little contact," she says.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2023
“This could be the prioress, or maybe someone in the Dominican order who is over her, though it is possible archdiocesan officials have weighed in on the matter informally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2021
They fret about prioress elections and daily expenses — “the high price of pins, the extravagance of little loaves, the wastage of candles” — more than they do the Black Death.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021
When “Matrix” opens, Marie, all of 17 years old, is appointed prioress of a dilapidated abbey, founded centuries earlier, where a few nuns remain scavenging for food.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021
How I have found purpose in being a physician and gained a mother in the prioress Ermentrude.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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