How to use "abbess" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "abbess" in popular movie and book plots

  • The head of the convent order is abbess Ignatz.  - Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
  • Her abbess treats her nicely but when she dies and another takes her place, Suzanne considers breaking her vows.  - The Nun (2013 film)
  • Houston travels to the Yamdring monastery, finds his way to the abbess and makes a perilous escape with her.  - The Rose of Tibet
  • A porter finds the girl and names her Le Fresne (modern French frêne, "ash tree"), and gives her to a gentle abbess to raise.  - Le Fresne (lai)
  • Another newcomer is Gwynn, the young, illegitimate son of the abbess Elidan.  - In Winter's Shadow
  • Father Henry, the abbot, and his servant Richard are summoned by the convent's abbess to help with the hysteria spreading among the order.  - Sacred Flesh
  • Juliette and Justine lived in a nunnery, where the abbess of the nunnery corrupted Juliette (and attempted to corrupt Justine too).  - Justine (de Sade novel)

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