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friaress

friaress noun: a female friar.

Noun

friaress (plural friaresses)

  1. A female friar.
    • He put upon his friars and friaresses obligations which proclaimed openly and fearlessly a direct and radical social regeneration.1899, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, page 1182
    • Similar letters to the bishop of Salamanca and bishops in Italy indicate the existence of a movement of wandering friaresses on an international scale.1996, Jo Ann Kay McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 310

Forms of friaress

pluralfriaresses

Origin of friaress

From Middle English freresse; equivalent to friar + -ess. Piecewise doublet of fratress.

Questions about friaress

What does friaress mean?
Friaress means a female friar.
What part of speech is friaress?
Friaress is a noun.
What is the plural of friaress?
The plural of friaress is friaresses.

Words near friaress in the dictionary

  1. friar's omelettes
  2. Friar-Preacher
  3. Friar-Preachers
  4. friarbird
  5. friarbirds
  6. friaress
  7. friaresses
  8. friarhood
  9. friarhoods
  10. friaries
  11. friarlike

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