Definition & Meaning | English word PRIORESS

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Definitions of PRIORESS

1. A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.

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Examples of Using PRIORESS in a Sentence

• Yolanda of Vianden (1231–1283), daughter of Count Henry I of Vianden, Luxembourg; prioress of Marienthal from 1258.
• Nicholas, at Pontoise in Normandy, France, taking the name Sister Benedicta, where she later became prioress in 1721.
• Over and besides that, whensoever any of my children comes hither to see me, they be welcome unto the prioress as long as they list to tarry, horsemeat and man's meat, and cost them nothing, with a piece of gold or two in their purses at their departure.
• In 1539 the prioress and nuns of Amesbury surrendered to the king their Melksham estates, which they had held for some 250 years.
• The pilgrims include a knight; his son, a squire; the knight's yeoman; a prioress, accompanied by a nun and the nun's priest; a monk; a friar; a merchant; a clerk; a sergeant of law; a franklin; a haberdasher; a carpenter; a weaver; a dyer; a tapestry weaver; a cook; a shipman; a doctor of physic; a wife of Bath; a parson and his brother, a plowman; a miller; a manciple; a reeve; a summoner; a pardoner; the Host (a man called Harry Bailey); and Chaucer himself.
• The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways.
• Hence a dispute concerning the right to appoint the chaplain arose in 1275 between Henry de Bonynges, lord of the manor of Idsworth, who claimed it as an appurtenance, versus the prioress of Nuneaton, who made good (made out better) her right as patron of Chalton church, and therefore of the appendant chapel.
• On September 10, 1579, the memory of the foundation of the monastery was made, signed by the Cabildo, the city regiment and the bishopric of Cusco, naming María de Guzmán as the "First settler and prioress of said Monastery".
• Examples include the original Coldingham Priory in Scotland, Barking Abbey in London, and also Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent in separate cantons of Switzerland, controlled by the male abbot of Einsiedeln without a converse arrangement for the prioress of Fahr.
• Elizabeth de Montfort, who married William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu, by whom she was the mother of four sons and seven daughters, including William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury; Simon Montagu, successively Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Ely; Elizabeth Montagu, Prioress of Holywell Priory; and Maud and Isabel Montagu, successively Abbesses of Barking Abbey.
• Originally the beguine institution was the convent, an association of beguines living together or in close proximity of each other under the guidance of a single superior, called a mistress or prioress.
• In August 1950, Sister Mary Nona McGreal was appointed president of the college and prioress of the Sisters.
• It is the only theatrical film based on the Robin Hood legend that makes use of a very old story (found in A Gest of Robyn Hode) depicting his murder at the hands of a prioress he was related to but turns the legend on its head by making Marian the prioress, and making it an act of love, not betrayal.
• Juliana Berners, a prioress during the 15th century, is believed to be the author of the Boke of St Albans published in 1486.
• The prioress taught Cereta to use late night to predawn hours while everyone else slept to embroider, write, and study.
• Marmaduke of Givendale was also head of the manor in Mulwith and Newby, and Mary can include Joan Ward, Prioress of Esholt as one of many notable ancestors, the Warde arms being bestowed in the early 9th century by Ecgberht, King of Wessex "for assisting him against the other six kingdoms".
• They interviewed the late priors of Woodbridge and Eye, the abbot of Leiston and the prioress of Redlingfield, the Master and three fellows of Wingfield College, and many priests, former monks and lay annuitants.
• The case was similar in Scotland, were prioress Euphemia Leslie of Elcho Priory at Perth secured the economical support and pension of her nuns after the introduction of the Reformation in 1560,; in Iceland, were Abbess Solveig Rafnsdóttir of Reynistaðarklaustur and her nuns were allowed to reside in the closed convent for life; in Norway, where Bakke Abbey was officially closed in 1537 but the nuns remained until at least 1561; in Finland, where Nådendal Abbey was closed in 1527 but the nuns remained for fifty years after; and in Denmark, where Maribo Abbey was closed in 1536 but the nuns remained until 1551, after which the Abbey was transformed in to a Lutheran house of secular canonesses for the use of unmarried noblewomen.
• Pantomimic dialogue, a sprawling plot and a rouged and lipsticked Prioress are but three of the hazards common to this type of film; a needless flogging scene, and the flea-bitten costumes and performances of the small-part players, are more damaging and unpleasant elements in a tradition that remains specifically Hammer's.
• It is in agreement with the last six stanzas of A Gest of Robyn Hode; the "pryoresse of Kyrkesly" and "Syr Roger of Donkesly" reappear as the prioress of Churchlees and Red Roger.

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