| 单词 | mother general |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMother General Mother General n. Christian Church a female head of a religious order (cf. sense 3a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > [noun] > female superioress1756 Superioress General1756 Mother General1865 Sister Superior1991 1865 Catholic World June 311 I have begged our mother-general to allow the 200 francs which you were so good as to send us for postage, to be devoted to the first expenses of the chapel. 1924 B. Camm (title) Mother Mary of St Peter. Foundress and first mother-general of the nuns of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre (Tyburn). 1991 M. Binchy Circle of Friends (BNC) 38 She had certainly been up every road as far as the Order was concerned. She had written to the Mother General. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 20 Sept. The Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth was founded in London in 1865 by Cardinal Wiseman and Mother St Basil, the first Mother General of the Congregation. < as lemmas |
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