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Definition of Prioress
1. Noun. The superior of a group of nuns.
Specialized synonyms: Mother
Generic synonyms: Superior
Specialized synonyms: Bride, Bridget, Brigid, Saint Bride, Saint Bridget, Saint Brigid, St. Bride, St. Bridget, St. Brigid, Heloise
Derivative terms: Abbatial
Definition of Prioress
1. n. A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
Definition of Prioress
1. Noun. a nun in charge of a priory; an abbess or mother superior ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prioress
1. a nun corresponding in rank to a prior [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prioress
Literary usage of Prioress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"She was the last prioress of Clerkenwell, at the dissolution thereof. (3.)
She died in the twelfth of queen Elizabeth, (as appears by Iter epitaph in ..."
2. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"The prioress adds, " I trust you have not forgotten the Report that the Commissioners
did send unto you of me and my sisters." The Report referred to is ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"Bearing on the variant tradition that the false prioress buried Robin by the ...
Ahy furthur particulars regarding the Priory and the prioress and (her? ..."
4. Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and Others by Margaret, Cecil Monro, Thomas Beckington (1863)
"TUB reader will not fail to observe the double address of this letter—" To the
Sub-prioress of Nuneaton," and " To the Master and Brethren of, etc. ..."
5. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"were kept subject to some monastery, so that the superiors of these houses usually
bore only the title of prioress, though they had the power of an abbess ..."
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