canoness
Americannoun
noun
Gender
What's the difference between canoness and canon? See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of canoness
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The nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness.
From Time Magazine Archive
That forty-year-old canoness, with high shoulders and grating voice!
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Invitations had been issued in grand form, by her aunt and guardian, the Countess Brigitte de Rupelmonde, canoness of Mauberge.
From The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving
The Countess Loulou was a canoness, and Balzac met her while visiting in Vienna; he admired her for herself as well as for her friendship for his Chatelaine.
From Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd
They showed how this would operate immediately upon the fortunes of a sister of the Count, who was on the point of being received as a canoness into one of the noble chapters.
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving
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