MEANING
A woman governing a priory or serving as a senior official in a community of nuns.
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- prioress’s chamber
- elected prioress
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The prioress ordered the gates closed.
They waited in the prioress’s chamber.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular prioress; plural prioresses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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