the abbess asked to close the convent for 3 days.
An abbess is a woman in charge of a group of nuns, or an abbey. An example of a sentence using the word "abbess" is "The sisters looked to their abbess for inspiration. "
An abbess is the nun who is in charge of the other nuns in a convent. The abbess had lived in the nunnery for 50 years.
(An abbess is a female abbot, a nun with authority over an abbey or other church community)The abbess was in charge of the convent and a church school.The young nun disagreed with the abbess but followed the new rules.
To Caedmon's account of his amazing dream listened the abbess and the reeve.
The Abbess was created in 1799.
The Abbess has 264 pages.
That is the correct spelling of "abbess" (the female version of an abbot).
A male of the same level as an abbess is an abbot
An abbess is the female monastic equivalent of an abbott. An abbess runs an abbey.
The noun for a male is abbot.The noun for a female is abbess.
An Abbess is a woman, and an Abbot is a man, just like a Gander is a male goose, or a bull is a male beef cow, Abbess is the female form of the word Abbot, so of course an man cannot be an Abbess, he would be an Abbot. Just like a man cannot be a nun, he would be a monk - same thing, Abbess rules over nuns, Abbot rules over monks.
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