How To Use prioress In A Sentence
- The prioress is so well skilled in these matters, that she has made the bargain with one of her friends, who knows it was for this house. The Letters of St. Teresa
- The prioress said yes, but the father superior said no, not until she was twenty-one. RIDDLE ME THIS
- The lady prioress, a pure wool cloak wrapped around her, came down to bid us adieu.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- She was prioress of the first reformed Carmelite convent in France, and spread the teachings of the founder of the French School, Pierre de Berulle, through the movement.
- In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the Little Convent.
- Both of them are confined to their bed, and the sub-prioress is dangerously ill. The Letters of St. Teresa
- There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
