prioresses in English
noun
1
a woman who is head of a house of certain orders of nuns.
Benedictine authority and obedience are achieved through dialogue between a community member and her prioress in a spirit of co-responsibility.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "prioresses" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "prioresses", or refer to the context using the word "prioresses" in the English Dictionary.
1. Abbesses: as in prioresses, conventuals
2. In the “Prioresses Tale” of Chaucer it occurs in the form “Antiphonere”: He Alma Redemptoris herde singe As children lerned hir Antiphonere.