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What is a canoness?

What is a canoness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dated) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
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After dinner the count gave me a letter of introduction to a canoness at Coblentz, of whom he spoke in very high terms.
Without a pause I renewed my conversation with the canoness, not so much as looking around.
Dancing went on all night, and I did not leave my canoness, who was a delightful woman and danced admirably.
The canoness and the Bernardine nun step into the enclosure reserved for the litigants.
De Sade fled to Italy accompanied by his sister-in-law, the canoness de Launay, who had become his mistress.
Hroswitha became a canoness and was allowed to leave the convent for outside visits.

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