Abbess synonyms

ăb'ĭs

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prioress
In an abbey of nuns, the woman in charge next below the abbess
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goodwife
The female head of a household.
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religieuse
(Dated) A nun.
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abbot (related)
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convent (related)
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nunnery (related)
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nun (related)
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Idonea (related)
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mother-superior
A woman in charge of a religious community of women.
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conventual
Of, like, or characteristic of a convent
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Abbess Sentence Examples

  • The special feature of the institute was that the abbess ruled the monks as well as the nuns.

  • And one ran quickly and told the good abbess, or mistress of the abbey, what strange thing had happened.

  • At the request of the abbess he became an inmate of the monastery.

  • Half a mile outside the town to the south-east is the convent of San Damiano, erected by St Francis, of which St Clare was first abbess.

  • In the manor of the abbess of Shaftesbury were 111 houses and 151 burgesses; here 42 houses had been totally destroyed since St Edward's reign.

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