Crossword-Solution: PRIORESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prioress | n. | A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PRIORESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Rank below abbess | 1 answer |
| One of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims | 1 answer |
| High-ranking nun | 1 answer |
| Future abbess, maybe | 1 answer |
| Chaucer's nun | 1 answer |
| Abbey administrator | 1 answer |
| Convent head | 2 answers |
| "The Canterbury Tales" character | 2 answers |
| Teller of a Canterbury Tale. | 2 answers |
| Chaucer character. | 5 answers |
| Chaucer pilgrim | 7 answers |
| A CONVENT RULED BY AN ABBESS | 10 answers |
| author Canterbury Tales | 10 answers |
| Canterbury Tales inn | 10 answers |
| CANTERBURY TALES, THE CHARACTER | 10 answers |
| CANTERBURY TALES, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| CANTERBURY TALES, THE | 10 answers |
| Abbess Rank below | 10 answers |
| abbess Greek | 10 answers |
| A WOMAN HOLDING A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF A PRIOR | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PRIORESS (5)
When you have taken the veil, you must not speak with men but in the presence of the prioress; then if you speak you must not show your face, or if you show your face, you must not speak.' 'And have you nuns no further privileges?' said Isabel.
You have abandoned yourself to a Seducer’s lust; You have defiled the sacred habit by your impurity; and still dare you think yourself deserving my compassion? Hence, nor detain me longer! Where is the Lady Prioress?” He added, raising his voice.
Anthony, where the Arab restored her to the Princess, and wished only to fill it with pious maidens and to be made prioress of the order.
Thus it came that, on the morning of the fourth day, he called Little John to him, and told him that he could not shake the fever from him, and that he would go to his cousin, the prioress of the nunnery near Kirklees, in Yorkshire, who was a skillful leech, and he would have her open a vein in his arm and take a little blood from him, for the bettering of his health.
The prioress is another respectable person, coy and simple, with dainty fingers, small mouth, and clean attire,--a refined sort of a woman for that age, ornamented with corals and brooch, so stately as to be held in reverence, yet so sentimental as to weep for a mouse caught in a trap: all characteristic of a respectable, kind-hearted lady who has lived in seclusion.
Quotes with PRIORESS (1)
One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1981–2023).