| 单词 | reverend mother |
| 释义 | > as lemmasReverend Mother Reverend Mother n. (also with lower-case initials) a female head or superior of a religious community, esp. a Mother Superior (frequently as a title or form of address). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > conventual head > [noun] > female presidentress1650 Reverend Mother1658 superioress1669 provostess1871 Mother Superior1907 Mother Vicaress1930 Mother Prioress1961 Sister Superior1991 1658 ‘F. G.’ in A. Baker More's Spiritval Exercises Ep. Ded. 3 The R. Mother Bridgit More of Saint Peter and Saint Paul most worthy Prioresse of the English Benedictin Nunns of our Lady of Hope in Paris. Reverend Mother, This deuout Book comes to you..[etc.]. c1667 G. Blakhal Breiffe Narr. Services Done Three Noble Ladyes (1844) iii. 194 She would go the next Tuysday herself to the Filles St. Marie,..and aggree with the reverend mother, Louis Eugenie, superieure of that house. 1701 W. Fuller Trip Hamshire & Flanders 24 The next morning the Earl pay'd a Visit to the Reverend Mother, and other Nuns at the English Convent. 1847 E. F. S. Harris From Oxf. to Rome vii. 251 But, Reverend Mother, is Sister Mary Beatrice ill? 1907 Irish Monthly Apr. 223 It was now the reign of a new Reverend Mother. 2006 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 2 Dec. f4 The all-too-unworldly mother superior, Reverend Mother Mary Regina. < as lemmas |
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