Synonyms of prioress

prioress

noun

as in abbess

Related Words

• abbess
• anchoress
• nun
• novice
• religious
• conventual
• friar
• monk
• votary
• priestess
• Reverend Mother
• deaconess
• mother superior
• monastic
• mendicant
• abbot
• sister
• reverend
• deacon
• oblate
• prelate
• cloistress
• preacher
• bishop
• cleric
• ecclesiastic
• clerical
• dominie
• pope
• archbishop
• dean
• curé
• monsignor
• clergyman
• diocesan
• rector
• high priestess
• divine
• presbyter
• clergywoman
• vicar
• clerk
• churchman
• clergyperson
• abbé
• confessor
• pastor
• parson
• minister
• padre
• chaplain
• archpriest
• high priest
• curate
• missionary
• missioner
• shepherd
• father
• Holy Joe
• sky pilot
• revivalist
• evangelist
• missionizer

Dissimilar Words

• layman
• lector
• secular
• layperson
• lay reader

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prioress

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, 7 July 2025

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

For the senior members of the order — two successive prioresses and the conflicted but maternal assistant prioress, Mother Marie — the role of self-abnegation is a deep moral mystery, one that takes a lifetime to fully understand. — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2022

It’s set in the twelfth century, and is about a young Frenchwoman, Marie de France, the illegitimate offspring of royalty, who is sent to England by Eleanor of Aquitaine and becomes the prioress of an abbey. — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021