A nun in charge of a priory or ranking next below the abbess of an abbey.
There may be someone on earth —a cloistered abbess, perhaps, or a Taliban soldier in a particularly remote post —who has yet to learn that High School Musical 3 opened last Friday.
of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
And the duke went with the abbess and her newly found husband and children into the convent, to hear this happy family discourse at leisure of the blessed ending of their adverse fortunes
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The abbess is not alone.
Then she moved on to Germany, where she was made abbess of a double monastery at Heidenheim.
