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Recent Examples of prioress
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.
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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
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
Siemen is the order's prioress, or leader.
—Laura Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 30 Jan. 2021
Sister Maria Christine, prioress of the monastery, said the Dominican order’s goal is to upgrade and expand on the mission that the nuns began nearly 100 years ago: providing a peaceful oasis for silent prayer and contemplation.
—Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is cast out of the royal court to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey in medieval Europe and finds purpose and love in her newfound devotion to the sisters.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
The author, whose previous fiction has probed contemporary American communities, sets this novel in an impoverished twelfth-century English abbey, where the protagonist, Marie, is sent at the age of seventeen to be prioress.
—The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
An embarrassment to the crown, with her ungainly physical presence making for a too-visible testimony to historical indiscretions, she is dispatched by Eleanor of Aquitaine to be the prioress of an abbey in bleakest, dampest England.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
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
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
Siemen is the order's prioress, or leader.
—Laura Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 30 Jan. 2021
Sister Maria Christine, prioress of the monastery, said the Dominican order’s goal is to upgrade and expand on the mission that the nuns began nearly 100 years ago: providing a peaceful oasis for silent prayer and contemplation.
—Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is cast out of the royal court to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey in medieval Europe and finds purpose and love in her newfound devotion to the sisters.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
The author, whose previous fiction has probed contemporary American communities, sets this novel in an impoverished twelfth-century English abbey, where the protagonist, Marie, is sent at the age of seventeen to be prioress.
—The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
An embarrassment to the crown, with her ungainly physical presence making for a too-visible testimony to historical indiscretions, she is dispatched by Eleanor of Aquitaine to be the prioress of an abbey in bleakest, dampest England.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioress
Noun
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When the abbess died in 866, she was buried in the abbey church.—
Moira Ritter,
Miami Herald,
22 Feb. 2024
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That makes the abbess a likely candidate for the author of the inscription and marginal doodles.—
Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2023
Noun
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In the medieval church, women’s roles were limited – usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress walled up alone for life, or a nun in a classic convent.—
Joelle Rollo-Koster,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.—
Hervé Guibert,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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One of the major funders of the move is the Immaculate Heart Community, the independent group formed when the nuns in Kent’s order splintered from the Catholic Church.—
Scarlet Cheng,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
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The department is actually headed by Sister Simona Brambilla, the first-ever nun named as prefect of a major Holy See office.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Despite his impressive resume that spans two Group of Seven central banks and major investment firms, Carney is a political novice.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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Probationary employees aren't necessarily novices, though.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Prioress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioress. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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