¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abbesses
1. abbess [n] - See also: abbess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbesses
Literary usage of Abbesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Yet were they, and almost all other abbesses of any quality, saluted "ladies," as
... However, the aforesaid four abbesses, though not called to parliament, ..."
2. The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1896)
"CHAPTER II NORTHUMBRIA UNDER THE SUCCESSORS OF OSWALD THE CELTIC BISHOPS—THE
GREAT abbesses, HILDA AND EBBA Oswald's successors in Northumbria : Oswy in ..."
3. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"Bertram Walton. Benedict Burgh translates Cato's Latin Distichs. History of that
worh. Julian Barnes. abbesses fond of hunting and hawking. ..."
4. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler (1866)
"BONA OR BEUVE, AND DODA, VIRGINS AND abbesses. ST. BEUVE was of the royal blood
of France, nearly related to King Dagobert, and one of the principal ladies ..."
5. The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times: The Cultus of St. Peter and St by George Forrest Browne (1919)
"... according to Bede-Women's share in conversions to Christianity —Education of
Anglo-Saxon Princesses—Royal abbesses and Prioresses—Hilda as the trainer ..."
6. Memoirs of the Queens of France by Annie Forbes Bush (1843)
"Her ashes have been twice displaced by the abbesses of that monastery. QUEEN ELEONOR
OF GUYENNE. ..."
Other Resources:
Basque