superioress

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The library is common property, but no one may use or read any book save by permission of the superioress.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

After this my second daughter appeared—a pretty young hoyden, with lovable clinging ways; and then the superioress asked if I would like to see the garden.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I handed her my card, and stated my desire to see the Countess Romani, if agreeable to the superioress.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie

Some said it was disappointed ambition in not being appointed superioress; others, that it was a case of love; but she never told, and the ladies of the convent were just as reticent.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

Among other writers' names we find that of Mother Mary Paul de Blaigni, superioress of the Congregation at Troyes, which was really the cradle of Sister Bourgeois' sublime virtues.

From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous