friaressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

friaress (複数形 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.