英语词汇“canoness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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canoness

释义

canoness|ˈkænənɪs|
[f. canon n.² + -ess; cf. F. chanoinesse, in 16th c. also canoniesse; in med.L. canonica and canonissa.]
1. Eccl. Hist. 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.)
1682News fr. France 36 The Nuns, or Regular Canonesses of the Blessed Virgin of the Nunnery of Charron.1726Ayliffe Parerg. 140 There are also in Popish Countries, women which they call Secular Canonesses living after the Example of Secular Canons.1772Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 246 The nunnery, filled with the canonesses of St. Augustine.1844Marg. Fuller Wom. in 19th C. (1862) 97 She may be one of the lay sisters of charity, a canoness bound by an inward vow.1885Dict. Nat. Biog. 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.
1873E. Berdoc Adv. Protestant 213 The canons, canonesses, and minor canons.

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