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n. The superior of a convent.

n. Used as a title for such a person.

n. A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See abbey.

n. A female superior of a convent of nuns, regularly in the same religious orders in which the monks are governed by an abbot; also, a superior of canonesses.

n. A title retained in Hanover, Würtemberg, Brunswick, and Schleswig-Holstein by the lady superiors of the Protestant seminaries and sisterhoods to which the property of certain convents was transferred at the Reformation.

n. the superior of a group of nuns

"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."

superior   

abbot    abbey   

abbey   

saint brigid    St. Bridget    heloise    saint bride    mother    St. Brigid    saint bridget    Brigid    bride    Bridget   

mother superior   

prioress    abbot    prelate    confessor    refectory    friar    sacerdotalism