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[ˈabɪs], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a woman who is the head of an abbey of nuns
(e.g: she's the abbess of the Abbey, the Mother Superior to twenty-three nuns)
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Origin
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Middle English: from Old French abbesse ‘female abbot’, from ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, from abbas, abbat- (see abbot)
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