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
  • The disagreement surfaced in April 2023 after Olson accused their Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach of breaking her chastity vows by having an online love affair with Father Philip Johnson, a former priest from the diocese in Raleigh, N.C., per Chron.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Valya’s thinking was that, in doing so, Lila could make contact with her ancestors — namely, the late Reverend Mother Raquella, to pump her for any additional details on the tyrant/reckoning prophecy.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of Reverend Mother
Noun
  • The Focus Features film cost $13 million, well above the going rate for a novice.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
  • At this point eight years ago, Mr. Murphy, a political novice with few allies in Trenton, had secured enough support among county Democratic Party bosses that his election seemed all but assured.
    Tracey Tully, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of novice
Noun
  • This is the folding method for clothes popularized by the high priestess of tidy organization, Marie Kondo.
    David Pierce, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2024
  • By record’s end, Garcia emerges in full command of this mercurial spirit world—a high priestess with a synth and a killer sixth sense.
    Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
Definition of high priestess
Noun
  • 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
  • Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 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
  • As the meeting broke up, Astiz singled out 12 activists with a telltale kiss on the cheek, including three Mothers and two French activist nuns.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • After the Mass, faithful attendees, priests, nuns and other guests lingered in the cathedral, their awe evident.
    THOMAS ADAMSON AND SYLVIE CORBET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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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