How To Use Abbess In A Sentence
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In this instance the abbess was the head of all; and this accounts for Bede's calling the house a nunnery.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
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Matters would have gone on just as well, although she had been left behind at Whitby till after the battle of Flodden; and she is daggled about in the train, first of the Abbess and then of Lord
Early Reviews of English Poets
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Unwilling to enter till the children were dismissed he remained here till young voices could be heard in the open air, and girls in white pinafores over red and blue frocks appeared dancing along the paths which the abbess, prioress, subprioress, and fifty nuns had demurely paced three centuries earlier.
Jude the Obscure
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Abbots were the spiritual heads of the larger monasteries (abbesses for nuns), with priors in charge of smaller or daughter houses.
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Avis, in the position of _lady abbess_ of a convent in one of your eastern cities, which it is settled she will have, will stand quite as high, I guess, as in the position of lady Elwood.
Gaut Gurley
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When the nuns were seated, the Abbess came in, wearing a white apron and white sleeves, and with her came the kitchener, Sister Priscilla, bearing a great silver salver of fish.
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The legend of his inspiration, however, may be placed beside the story of how the saintly Abbess turned the snakes into the fossil ammonites with which the liassic shores of Whitby are strewn.
Yorkshire
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He often sojourns there and woos the ‘niece’ of the abbess whom he entreats to come live with him and be his love.
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The persecution of Urbain Grandier and the sufferings of the Ursuline Abbess seem to me -- to use the old schoolboy word -- to be hopelessly "muffed"; and if any one will compare the accounts of the taking of the
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The Abbess's Norman pride of birth, and the real interest which she took in her niece's advancement, overcame all scruples; and the venerable mother might be seen in unwonted bustle, now giving orders to the gardener for decking the apartment with flowers -- now to her cellaress, her precentrix, and the lay-sisters of the kitchen, for preparing a splendid banquet, mingling her commands on these worldly subjects with an occasional ejaculation on their vanity and worthlessness, and every now and then converting the busy and anxious looks which she threw upon her preparations into
The Betrothed
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My agent, the redoutable Marilyn Marlow, shushed me like an abbess visiting the nun-taught school and scolding the Bad Girl.
Tons of Fun
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That is why we have abbesses in our tradition, as well as female doctors of the Church (not to mention queens).
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And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
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At the head of the community is a superior often called the abbess, appointed for life by the chapter, at least outside Italy, for in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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A crozier for an English abbess and a chalice, both executed in ivory by Fernand Py and featured in Liturgical Arts Quarterly.
The Other Modern: An Introduction
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Should a problem arise between two sisters, then `humbly and charitably "the abbess should correct the wrongdoer.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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The bias against celibacy prevents the emergence of a distinctive caste of female religious comparable to the nuns and abbesses of the Christian West.
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The Countess, fatigued and discontented, received the politeness of the abbess with careless haughtiness, and had followed her, with indolent steps, to the parlour, over which the painted casements and wainscot of larch-wood threw, at all times, a melancholy shade, and where the gloom of evening now loured almost to darkness.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess.
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket - holes — was ill all the night.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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In European history the abbess is a notable figure.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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This extract from Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, is from a book of ecstatic visions.
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A group of manuscripts made for the Dowager Queen Eliska Rejka 1315-23 show first-hand knowledge of Franco-Flemish illumination, while a passional illuminated for the Abbess Kunhuta in about 1320 (Prague, University Lib.) remains obscure.
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She would be too ashamed to confide in the abbess about how she was ravished by a stranger.
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Although the abbess was a person exactly after his own heart, my education as a pensioner devolved much on an excellent old mother who had adopted the tenets of the Jansenists, with perhaps a still further tendency towards the reformed doctrines, than those of Port Royal.
Redgauntlet
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Now that night the abbess had with her a priest whom she used not seldom to have conveyed to her in a chest; and the report of the sisters making her apprehensive lest for excess of zeal and hurry they should force the door open, she rose in a trice; and huddling on her clothes as best she might in the dark, instead of the veil that they wear, which they call the psalter, she caught up the priest's breeches, and having clapped them on her head, hied her forth, and locked the door behind her, saying: -- "Where is this woman accursed of God?
The Decameron, Volume II
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In the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn wished to give the post of abbess to a friend, but King Henry had scruples on the subject, for the proposed abbess had a somewhat shady reputation; he wrote, "I would not for all the gold in the world clog your conscience nor mine to make her a ruler of a house, which is of so ungodly a demeanour, nor I trust you would not that neither for brother nor sister I should so bestain mine honour or conscience.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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Particularly in Germany, where Hildegard lived, being an abbess was a very commanding position.
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Like Whitby in Northumbria, several of the Kentish minsters had been double houses, comprising communities of nuns and monks ruled by an abbess.
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These x-rays will also assist in the diagnosis of tooth root abbesses, pulpits, and endodontic disease.
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Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland.
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This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess.
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I am getting so bored with this for some reason but my dear friend Abbess is urging me to continue so I must.
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He maintained a correspondence with Marie's youngest daughter, an orthodox abbess named Mother Alexandra.
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The abbess questions the existence of the reincarnations.
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Moreover, many a time and in many things I observed their customs, for fear of worse, and being asked by the chief of the ladies, her whom they call abbess, if
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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At Fontevrault (founded 1099) and with the Bridgettines (1346), the abbess was the superior of monks as well as nuns, though with the Gilbertines (1146) it was the prior who ruled over both.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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How she longed to be in the warm company of the abbess and the sisters again.
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Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
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If the prioress is the first superior, her authority over the convent is similar to that of a conventual prior over his priory; if the first superior is an abbess, the office of the prioress is similar to that of a claustral prior in an abbey.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The Council of Trent (Sess. xxv, cap. 7, de regular. et monial.) fixed forty years complete and eight years after her profession for an abbess, mother general, or prioress of any religious order of nuns.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket-holes — was ill all the night.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess, where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension.
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The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors.
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These animals may have been brought by foreign dignitaries who came to pay their respects to Edith and her mother (the abbess of Wilton and a former queen).
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Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess, where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension.
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Later in that same article, Coffman notes that the use of fish in a spiritual fast was cause for great culinary creativity in the Medieval kitchen, and a French abbess is credited for the creation of the divine dish which I hesitate to categorize as “fish soup” called bouillabaisse.
Tigers & Strawberries » Fish: Feast or Fast?
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It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege.
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Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
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M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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The same yeare, Matthew sonne to the earle of Flanders married the ladie Marie the abbesse of Ramsie, daughter to king Stephan, and with hir had the countie of Bullongne.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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One example of this is in his sermon on St. Hilda, the seventh-century abbess who ruled over a double monastery of men and women at Whitby.
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A comparison of the rites for the consecration of an abbot or abbess reveals the emphasis in the former on leadership and strength; in the latter on the need of the abbess for divine support.
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There are many women who, as abbesses or as ordinary nuns, did much for learning and welfare.
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Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
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She arrived at the doors of the convent while the abbess was praying in front of the church's crucifix.
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Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.
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Then the abbess of the convent presents Antipholus of Syracuse, also claiming redress.
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The abbess withheld much from me concerning the fate of my parents.
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I have given my word to the abbess and I pledge the same to you, that she will be generously cared for.
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And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
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Increasing emphasis on celibacy in tenth and eleventh-century English reform may have been a factor making direct kinship between bishops or abbots and kings rarer here, though that did not apply to abbesses and nunneries.
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Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
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She is a story teller and through telling stories discovers new meanings, like the ancient forerunners of her profession - the pythonesses, abbesses and sibyls who ‘revealed mysteries’.
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She was an orthodox theologian, a reformer, a builder, a dramatist, a musician, an herbalist, and an abbess.
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The abbess is the only person who knows precisely the location of the service, knowledge which was passed down for one thousand years from abbess to abbess.
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The abbess was a baroness _ex officio_, and the revenue at the dissolution of the monasteries was £1084.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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We were on the topic of religious freedom when the abbess went to get our guest some more coffee.
