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

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

Such was the representation which sister Claire made to her reverend mother, on the first opportunity.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

The reverend mother drew Angela to her side, took off the little black silk hood, and laid her hand caressingly on the soft brown hair.

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