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vicaress|ˈvɪkərɪs|
Also 7 viccaris.
[f. vicar + -ess1.]
1. The sister ranking immediately beneath the Abbess or Mother Superior in a nunnery or convent.
c1613in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1914) XIV. 34, 2 years before her death [she] was chosen first Vicaress of ys Monastery. a1700Diary Blue Nuns Ibid. VIII. 11 Sister Margarite Bruno alias Floyd was again chosen Viccaris. 1721Ibid. 291 The Office of Vicaresse is nearest the Abbesse in Authority... The Vicaresse represents in every place, the Abbesse when she is absent. 1804in Archaeologia (1840) XXVIII. 198 Mother Austin was afterwards Vicaress [of the Blue Nuns' convent] several years. 1857G. Oliver Coll. Cath. Relig. Cornwall, etc. 136 The vicaress, the Rev. Mother Eyston, was sent to Bruges. 1892J. M. Stone Faithful unto Death 244 To govern the new community as abbess and vicaress respectively.
2. A (female) representative. In quot. fig.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 125 The sensitive Soul, the vicaresse of the minde, doth surely rejoyce in a greater liberty than the souls of bruit Beasts.
3. The wife of the vicar of a parish.
1770W. Huddesford in J. Granger Lett. (1805) 146, I am under the greatest obligation to the vicaress, for her forgiveness of my impertinence. 1849Ld. Coleridge in Life & Corr. (1904) I. viii. 190 Nothing could be kinder than the Vicar and Vicaress. 1862Mrs. Houstoun Recommended to Mercy xii, The encroachments of the Vicaress in the government of the parish. |