| 词汇 | abbess |
| 释义 | abbess noun[ C ] uk /ˈæb.es/ us /ˈæb.es/ a woman who is in charge of a convent女修道院院长 Compare abbot prioress Religious people: monks & nuns abbey abbot anchorite ascetic benedictine convent friar friary habit hermit lay brother lay sister monastically monasticism monk mother novice priory Trappist monk veil Examples of abbessabbess And every bishop, abbot and abbess who is able to do so is to give a pound of silver in alms. Petitioners recognized the influential position the abbess had obtained as a result of her own patronage of the exiled and impecunious royalists. In return for the aid, the abbess expected to reap the fruits of royal patronage once the king's fortunes were reversed. The introductory essay provides a vivid account of some of the last abbesses and prioresses drawn mainly from episcopal and archiepiscopal visitation records. The monastery itself provided accommodation for the symposium participants, thanks to the hospitality of the abbess. The abbess's influence with the king and his courtiers is only comprehensible in the light of the business she conducted on their behalf. Every bishop but one, and a very high proportion of abbots and abbesses, were of noble family. It offers a detailed description of the abbess's involvement in royalist affairs, but does not explore the motives for her assistance. Given the network of agents the abbess employed, it is probable that some were more invisible to government probing than others. Moreover, the abbess ignored other more serious obstacles to her plan. The other obstacles hindering the abbess were her gender and her religious profession. The abbess acquired such a formidable reputation as a successful patron that other royalists approached her when their own applications to the king's ministers had failed. The nuns' duty was to pray and sing the divine office in the convent church with their sisters, attend the chapter chaired by the abbess, and engage in collective works. Barrin was, however, convinced of a concerted attempt to undermine the authority of the new abbess, with some nuns claiming her letters of provision were defective. As abbess, thelburg began work on a church in honour of the twelve apostles which was left unfinished at her death in 664. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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