friaress

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English freresse; equivalent to friar +‎ -ess.

Noun

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friaress (plural friaresses)

  1. A female friar.
    • 1899, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, page 1182:
      He put upon his friars and friaresses obligations which proclaimed openly and fearlessly a direct and radical social regeneration.
    • 1996, Jo Ann Kay McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 310:
      Similar letters to the bishop of Salamanca and bishops in Italy indicate the existence of a movement of wandering friaresses on an international scale.
    • 2018, Ingrid Barton, The Little History of Yorkshire, The History Press, →ISBN:
      There were friaresses in Europe, but the Church was very uncomfortable with them.

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