How to Use abbess in a Sentence

abbess

noun

• That comes from a book on Hildegard of Bingen, who was an abbess in a monastery in Germany in the eleven-hundreds.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• Following Offa’s death in 796, Cynethryth joined a religious order and became abbess of the monastery.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
• Behind Convent Walls, his ninth film and one of the breezier entries in his filmography, checks off all these boxes with a light-on-plot chronicle of naughty nuns and their abbess’s futile efforts to wrangle them.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• The heavy religious imagery suggests the anonymous woman was an early Christian leader, perhaps an abbess.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• So that is a moment when it’s really dramatized: the sacramental authority of the priest on the one hand and the local, relational authority of the abbess on the other hand.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• The discovery of a document detailing the occult activities of an old abbess suddenly launches us on a grail quest.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The Anglo-Saxon bling suggested the woman was powerful in her own right and extremely devout, perhaps an early Christian leader, a princess or an abbess.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024