canoness

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That obliged me to stop at Coblentz; but when I got down at the inn, I found that the canoness was at Manheim, while in her stead I encountered an actress named Toscani, who was going to Stuttgart with her young and pretty daughter.

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  1. noun A member of a religious community of women living under a common rule but not bound by vows.

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  • Lady Morgan felt the natural contempt of a 'showy woman' for one who looks like a 'shabby canoness.' —  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
  • That obliged me to stop at Coblentz ; but when I got down at the inn, I found that the canoness was at Manheim, while in her stead I encountered an actress named Toscani, who was going to Stuttgart with her young and pretty daughter. —  Holland and Germany
  • That obliged me to stop at Coblentz; but when I got down at the inn, I found that the canoness was at Manheim, while in her stead I encountered an actress named Toscani, who was going to Stuttgart with her young and pretty daughter. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • This was admitted to be the most probable; and all concurred in believing the countess to be at the bottom of the intended sacrifice; for although a canoness, a dignitary of a religious order, she was pronounced little better than a devil incarnate. —  The Crayon Papers
  • a canoness, and Balzac met her while visiting in Vienna; he admired her for herself as well as for her friendship for his _Chatelaine_. —  Women in the Life of Balzac
 

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  1. from Middle Latin canonissa (later F. chanoinesse), a feminine form of canon: see canon and -ess.
 

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