rectoress

In this way the worthy rectoress consoled herself; and her daughters sighed, and sat over the _Peerage_ all night ....

From Chaucer to Tennyson

They have their own chaplain, their rectoress, and their portress; and they live safely retired and with holy mode of life.

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They have a rectoress to govern them, a portress, and several virtuous women of mature years.

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It has its rectoress and portress, and they live with great edification and holy customs.

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It had a rectoress to care for and govern it, and a portress.

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It is a royal foundation, and a rectoress lives there.

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It has a revolving entrance and a parlor, and the rectoress has other confidential assistants; and there shelter is given to needy women and girls of the city, in the form of religious retirement.

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And those four were, by force of circumstance, Robin Cockscroft and Joan his wife, the rector and the rectoress.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale

My wife, being the expectant heiress and lay-rectoress, shall write to satisfy you that she is not suffering from my coercion.

The Pillars of the House, V1

It can be corrected by giving the institution some more Indians in encomienda; by adding three more toneladas, in the distribution of the cargo, to the three that are given annually; by raising to thirty its twelve Indians of service, who bring it water and wood; and by ordering that ornaments be given to its church from the royal treasury, as is done to the other churches, and from the royal hospital the necessary medicines, at the written request of the physician and the rectoress.

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