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Meanings of abbots in English
Female superior of a community of nuns, often an abbey.
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Usage of abbots in English
1
This considerable place was under the lordship of the abbots of Westminster.
2
Many bishops and abbots were present to bless and hallow the marriage-bed.
3
The bishops, some abbots, the king, and the eorldormen were usually present.
4
Tavistock was a Benedictine monastery, over which forty abbots ruled in succession.
5
I have met ever so many priests and abbots in my travels.
6
The closed classrooms are closed to abbots as well as other adults.
7
Bishops and abbots were most frequently chosen from the ranks of the great.
8
The bishops and abbots were set to work to preach against the Greeks.
9
In general, your abbots have been, to this very day, unknown to you.
10
There are several monuments of mitred abbots who formerly presided over the cathedral.
11
Archbishops, bishops and abbots rushed to the tribune and offered all they could.
12
Were there any rick-burners in the times of the lord abbots?
13
There, on that little hill, lay bishops and abbots in their sacerdotal apparel.
14
Not merely were the parish priests ignorant men, but even bishops and abbots.
15
Holy abbots surely never so undisguisedly blurted out their secular aims.
16
Bishops, abbots, and barons, he had bidden them all to observe the Feast.
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