canonessn.
/ˌkanəˈnɛs/, /ˈkanənᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkænənəs/ 1. Church History. A member of a college or community of women living under a rule, but not under a perpetual vow; hence, a woman holding a prebend or canonry in a female chapter. (The Augustinian Canonesses are now practically an order of nuns.)
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1682 News from France 36 The Nuns, or Regular Canonesses of the Blessed Virgin of the Nunnery of Charron.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 140 There are also in Popish Countries, women which they call Secular Canonesses living after the Example of Secular Canons.
1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 246 The nunnery, filled with the canonesses of St. Augustine.
1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 86 She may be one of the lay sisters of charity, a Canoness bound by an inward vow!
1885 Dict. National Biogr. I. 216/2 Louisa was appointed at the age of seventeen a canoness of Mons, then the wealthiest..chapter in the Austrian Netherlands.
2. humorous. The wife of a canon.
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1873 E. Berdoc Adv. Protestant 213 The canons, canonesses, and minor canons.
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