reverend mother

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What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Good night, dear and reverend mother; good night and good-bye.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

No, reverend mother," he said, "since you so harshly reject the care of your kinswoman, she shall not be a burden to any of her other relatives.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

I reminded the reverend mother of her promise to me in regard to school, and she told me that she had not forgotten it, that the two years' novitiate was all schooling.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth

I had learned that the reverend mother superior was the same over us in the convent as the priest in the confessional and church.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth