Prioress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIORESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a female superior of a house of any of various orders of nuns
• a woman who is head of a house of certain orders of nuns.
• the woman who is next in rank below an abbess.
• deputy head nun in a convent
• A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• the superior of a group of nuns
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a nun corresponding in rank to a prior

Words related to PRIORESS

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Words that contain PRIORESS

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How to use PRIORESS in a sentence

• Upon the steep stairway he met the Prioress and some of the chief among the sisters.
• Nevertheless the opposition continued, much to the astonishment of Theresa, who could not see how a prioress and twelve nuns could be injurious to the city.
• CHAPTER III THE PRIORESS PASSES A key turned slowly in the lock of the oaken door at the entrance to the underground way.
• The Prioress passed up the cloister with a stately grace of motion which, even beneath the heavy cloth of her white robe, revealed the noble length of supple limbs.
• Perhaps the Prioress had foreseen this result, when she imposed the penance.
• Slowly the Prioress turned, prostrated herself at the foot of the cross, and laid her forehead against the floor at its base.
• CHAPTER VII THE MADONNA IN THE CLOISTER The Prioress knelt, in prayer and meditation, before the figure of the Virgin Mother holding upon her knees the holy Babe.
• The Prioress wondered why she had not heard the bell announcing their return, and calling to the hour of prayer and silence.
• Two flashes, with their accompanying peals of thunder passed, before the Prioress moved or spoke.
• The Prioress now moved toward the heavy door in the archway leading into the cloisters.
• The Prioress stood in the shelter of the doorway, looking out into the cloisters.
• This the Prioress was herself proceeding to do, when something impelled her to turn her eyes to the angle of wall laid bare by the closing of the door.
• Placing the lantern on the ground, the Prioress drew out the key, closed the door, and locked it on the inside.
• Muttering concerning the report she would make to the Prioress in the morning, Sister Mary Rebecca went to her cell.
• CHAPTER XVI THE ECHO OF WILD VOICES When the Prioress entered her cell, she stood for a moment bewildered by the rapid walk in the darkness.
• Would it cost him his faith in God, in truth, in purity, in honour? The Prioress felt the insistent need of prayer.
• The Prioress sat at her table, parchment and an open missal before her.
• He certainly looked high when he lifted the eyes of his insistent desire to the Prioress of the White Ladies.
• You and I can hurl bricks at one another, my dear Prioress, and be the better for the exercise.
• The Prioress asked me whether she still had too much spirit to be easily managed by the lay-sisters.
• My friendship with the Prioress has been a source of interest, pleasure, and true helpfulness to myself and I trust to her also.
• CHAPTER XXVI LOVE NEVER FAILETH The Bishop awaited the Prioress on that stone seat under the beech, from which the robin had carried off the pea.
• The Prioress turned her back upon the Bishop, and walked over to the window.
• The Prioress rose, took it from him, and unfolded it.
• And in his own there was a look so sorrowful, so deeply wounded, and yet withal so tenderly understanding, that it quelled and calmed the anger of the Prioress.
• But, sobbing with her face hidden, the Prioress was conscious only of her own sufferings.
• She fixed her eyes upon the Prioress, and spoke with an air of detachment and of mystery.
• Slowly the Prioress rose, feeling her way, as one blinded by too great a light.
• Also this had been the only time when he had wondered whether the Prioress really believed Father Gervaise to be at the bottom of the ocean.
• He had ridden in on Shulamite, from the heights above the town, whence he had watched the Prioress ride in the river meadow.
• But as nuns count it? And lovers? A lifetime? A night? It had seemed indeed a lifetime to the Prioress of the White Ladies, during the first days of her return to the world.
• And were there not souls equally helpless, and hearts just as dependent upon sympathy and tenderness? The Prioress had understood this, and had ruled by love.

Similar words containing PRIORES without suffix s

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