What is "abbess"

Usage examples of "abbess".

She replied that she was debarred from accepting any money by her vow of poverty and obedience, and that she had given up to the abbess what remained of the alms the bishop had procured her.

Well, two days ago, my dear friend begged the abbess and my aunt to allow me to sleep in her room in the place of the lay-sister, who, having a very bad cold, had carried her cough to the infirmary.

The abbess told her that she would send two laysisters to bring her back to the convent, and that as she had recovered her health she could come on-foot, and thus save money which could be spent in better ways.

I should be subjected, I went the next day to my aunt the abbess, who could not refuse me her advice.

I arrived in this vast city I wrote to the abbess, my aunt, and told her the whole story, begging her to protect my lover, and to confirm me in my resolution never to return to Lisbon till I could do so in security, and have no obstacles placed in the way of my marriage.

Chapter Seven Fidelma paused outside the door of the cubiculum hospitale that had been assigned to the Abbess Etain.

Abbess Abbe came upon me when I was leaving the cubiculum of Abbess Etain.

At this the Spanish guests bit their lips, but the Frenchmen laughed heartily, and did not spare their epigrams against the overparticular abbess.

Lady Abbess took the noviciate veil from the fair devotee, and prepared to enrobe her in black.

The Dorje Phamo travels in a palanquin carried by four heavily muscled males because she is the abbess of Samden Gompa, an all-male monastery some thirty klicks out along the south wall of the same ridge that holds the Temple Hanging in Air along its north wall.

After I had pondered over the case of conscience you submitted to me, I went to the convent of C--- where the abbess is a friend of mine, and I entrusted her with the secret, relying on her discretion.

The same day Madame du Rumain had a letter from the abbess telling her that her young friend had given birth to a fine boy, who had been sent away to a place where he would be well looked after.

The girl returned to her mother about the end of August armed with a certificate from the abbess, who said she had been under her protection for four months, during which time she had never left the convent or seen any persons from outside.

This was perfectly true, but the abbess added that her only reason for her going back to her family was that she had nothing more to dread from the attentions of M.

If it had been my fortune to enter Milan at the head of a victorious army, the first thing I should have done would be he setting free of this poor captive, and if the abbess had resisted she would have felt the weight of my whip.