mother superior
the head of a Christian religious community for women.
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How to use mother superior in a sentence
“We live under different rules here,” she said, eyeing her mother superior who kept a watchful eye from a corner chair.
Nuns React Differently to Vatican’s Condemnation | Barbie Latza Nadeau, Jesse Ellison | June 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat point is where the convent purse rattles thinly and the mother-superior must face hunger.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanAnd the mother-superior, being a sensible woman, agreed to engage a certain number of teachers from the outer world.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanRumours were rife of large loans raised by the mother superior, of mortgages on the factory buildings and the machinery.
Hyacinth | George A. BirminghamThe mother superior, the cur himself, had visited her, had said strange and wonderful things to her which she scarcely understood.
Atlantic Narratives | Mary Antin
“I could not stand it any longer, madame,” she assured the mother superior, with hot tears in her big eyes.
The White Lie | William Le Queux
British Dictionary definitions for mother superior
the head of a community of nuns
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