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  • proper noun A nun who worked among the poor for many decades in India.
  • noun A person who is completely unselfish to the point of being saintly.

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  • noun Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)

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