Definition of Prioress. Meaning of Prioress. Synonyms of Prioress

- Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its...
- "The Prioress's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It follows "The Shipman's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by Chaucer's...
- Prioress Island (64°56′S 63°53′W / 64.933°S 63.883°W / -64.933; -63.883) is a narrow island lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east of Host Island in...
- immorality and sometimes brutal violence among the Benedictine nuns and their prioress at St Nicholas' Priory in Littlemore (thus "Littlemore Priory"), in Oxfordshire...
- and took the religious name Thérèse of Saint Augustine. She served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785–1787. Her cause for canonization was opened in 1902...
- monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church. Priories may be monastic houses...
- or of France (24 August 1393 – 19 August 1438) was a medieval nun and prioress, born a princess of France from the House of Valois as the daughter of...
- the Prioress Elizabeth Prudde in 1472, it is recorded that seven nuns and ten novices were present. At the election in 1534 of the last prioress, Sybil...
- Bethóc ingen Somairle was a 13th-century Scottish prioress, considered to have been the first of Iona Nunnery. She was a daughter of Somairle mac Gilla...
- English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, and is said to have been prioress of the St Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Very little...