vicaressn.
/vɪkəˈrɛs/, /ˈvɪkərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈvɪkərəs/ 1. The sister ranking immediately beneath the Abbess or Mother Superior in a nunnery or convent.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > prioress > [noun] > assistant to
sub-prioressc1390
supprioress1422
vicaress1613
1613 in Miscellanea (Catholic Rec. Soc.) (1914) 9 34 2 years before her death [she] was chosen first Vicaress of ys Monastery.
a1700 Diary Blue Nuns in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 11 Sister Margarite Bruno alias Floyd was again chosen Viccaris.
1721 Diary Blue Nuns in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 291 The Office of Vicaresse is nearest the Abbesse in Authority... The Vicaresse represents in every place, the Abbesse when she is absent.
1804 in Archaeologia (1840) 28 198 Mother Austin was afterwards Vicaress [of the Blue Nuns' convent] several years.
1857 G. Oliver Coll. Hist. Catholic Relig. Cornwall 136 The vicaress, the Rev. Mother Eyston, was sent to Bruges.
1892 J. M. Stone Faithful unto Death 244 To govern the new community as abbess and vicaress respectively.
2. A (female) representative. In quot. 1662 figurative.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > female
vicaress1662
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 125 The sensitive Soul, the vicaresse of the minde, doth surely rejoyce in a greater liberty than the souls of bruit Beasts.
3. The wife of the vicar of a parish.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > vicar > [noun] > wife of
vicaress1770
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife of one in specific occupation > specific
doctoress1622
generaless1646
tradeswomana1652
bishopess1699
doctress1748
vicaress1770
parsoness1784
farm wife1831
farmeress1833
old Dutcha1889
rebbetzin1892
owneress1923
faculty wife1962
1770 W. Huddesford in J. Granger Lett. (1805) 146 I am under the greatest obligation to the vicaress, for her forgiveness of my impertinence.
1849 Ld. Coleridge in Life & Corr. (1904) I. viii. 190 Nothing could be kinder than the Vicar and Vicaress.
1862 Mrs. Houstoun Recommended to Mercy xii The encroachments of the Vicaress in the government of the parish.
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