cloistress

noun

Definition of cloistressnext
obsolete
as in mother superior

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  1. Reverend Mother
  2. novice
  3. high priestess
  4. anchoress
  5. abbess
  6. nun
  7. prioress
Noun
  • Torn between his conflicting loyalties to Francesca, the Empress Natalya (Jodhi May), and Reverend Mother Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson), Javicco chose to take his own life.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Emily Watson stars as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen, who leads the Sisterhood and has a close ally in her sister, Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of Reverend Mother
Noun
  • Entering the retail space as novices forced these bottle shop owners to face a steep learning curve.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Only novices believe that a system will work flawlessly.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of novice
Noun
  • While Ellen’s spasms and fits are viewed as shameful by her peers—even her husband—Franz views her as a sacred figure who would have been a high priestess in another age.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The occult expert of the film, Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz (Willem Dafoe) declares that in another time period, Ellen would have been a respected high priestess.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of high priestess
Noun
  • Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.
    Hervé Guibert, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the spotlighted individuals, like St. Catherine of Siena and English anchoress Julian of Norwich, were celebrated in their day as visionaries, while others, including Kempe and Joan of Arc, were persecuted as heretics.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of anchoress
Noun
  • When the abbess died in 866, she was buried in the abbey church.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That makes the abbess a likely candidate for the author of the inscription and marginal doodles.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
Definition of abbess
Noun
  • Another nun, Sister Alessandra Smerilli, is the No. 2 in the Vatican development office while several women have been appointed to under-secretary positions, including French nun Nathalie Becquart, in the synod of bishops’ office.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, on her 110th birthday, Lucas, who is also the oldest living nun in the world, was honored with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, per Guinness World Records.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of nun
Noun
  • In response, the diocese said in a statement that the Holy See has acted toward healing the Arlington Carmel and the nuns in the community and not simply the former prioress and her former councilors.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff Currents of violence and devotion coalesce around Marie de France, a 17-year-old sent to be the new prioress of a 12th-century English abbey.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Definition of prioress
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