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Prioress

noun
1.
The superior of a group of nuns.  Synonyms: abbess, mother superior.






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"Prioress" Quotes from Famous Books



... wherein she who was now my sister in Christ rather than my wife, Heloise, had taken the veil. From this abbey he expelled by force all the nuns who had dwelt there, and of whom my former companion had become the prioress. The exiles being thus dispersed in various places, I perceived that this was an opportunity presented by God himself to me whereby I could make provision anew for my oratory. And so, returning thither, I bade her come to the oratory, together with some others from the same ...
— Historia Calamitatum • Peter Abelard



Words linked to "Prioress" :   St. Bridget, Saint Bride, abbess, Heloise, mother, Saint Brigid, Bridget, superior, mother superior, Brigid, Saint Bridget, bride, St. Bride, St. Brigid



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