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Noun
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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
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Now, Trump has four years of White House experience while Vance is a novice.—
Roy Brownell,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Jan. 2025
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Apart from Musk’s most loyal sycophants, the build was almost universally ridiculed as the work of a complete novice.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.—
Hervé Guibert,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Nov. 2024
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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
Noun
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When the abbess died in 866, she was buried in the abbey church.—
Moira Ritter,
Miami Herald,
22 Feb. 2024
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That makes the abbess a likely candidate for the author of the inscription and marginal doodles.—
Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2023
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He’s already asked fellowship communities in Southern California to organize food and clothing drives, while monks and nuns at the group’s center in Mount Washington are offering spiritual counseling over the phone.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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But, as tuition climbed (partly to cover the salaries of lay teachers who replaced nuns), the student body skewed wealthier.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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“Cloistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloistress. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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