MOTHER SUPERIOR Definition & Meaning

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mother superior

noun

plural mother superiors, mothers superior.

the head of a Christian religious community for women.

mother superior

noun

the head of a community of nuns

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of mother superior¹

First recorded in 1905–10

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Emily Watson plays the manipulative mother superior who slips Bill an envelope of cash to buy his complicity.

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She’s barely there, making a couple of brief appearances as the nuns’ mother superior back in Calcutta, but she’s as tough and vivid as ever.

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About three miles from downtown Galveston, 93 children lived at St. Mary’s Orphanage with 10 nuns, including Sister M. Camillus Tracy, the mother superior.

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The mother superior and several nuns have left and armed guards are patrolling the site.

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One convent said she had even pretended to be a mother superior – the head of a female religious community.

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