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canoness

[ kan-uh-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a member of a Christian community of women living under a rule but not under a vow.

canoness

/ ˈkænənɪs /

RC Church a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow

What's the difference between canoness and canon? See -ess.

First recorded in 1675–85; canon ² + -ess

Very often was the Canoness constrained to absorb herself in her little illuminated prayer-book.

The Canoness he descried escaping, unseen by them, with the aid of a gardener, across the pond into the park.

She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.

All the voices, the voice of the merciful canoness excepted, demand with Countess Ursine, "Justice and vengeance!"

And a Parisian market-woman spoke better French than a German canoness with sixty-four ancestors.

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