Canoness

a member of a Christian community of women living under a rule but not under a vow.
Historical Examples

The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine
The Iron Pincers Eugne Sue
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The World’s Greatest Books, Vol VII Various
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete Madame du Hausset, an “Unknown English Girl” and the Princess Lamballe
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The False Chevalier William Douw Lighthall
Lola Montez Edmund B. d’Auvergne

noun
(RC Church) a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow

Read Also:

Canonical
pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons. included in the canon of the Bible. authorized; recognized; accepted: canonical works. Mathematics. (of an equation, coordinate, etc.) in simplest or standard form. following the pattern of a musical canon. Linguistics. (of a form or pattern) characteristic, general or basic: the canonical form of […]
Canonical-age
the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
Canonical-encoding-rules
canonical encoding rules

Canonical-hour
Ecclesiastical. any of certain periods of the day set apart for prayer and devotion: these are matins and lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline. noun (RC Church) one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law the services prescribed for these times, namely matins, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, […]
Canonical-name
canonical name (CNAME) A host’s official name as opposed to an alias. The official name is the first hostname listed for its Internet address in the hostname database, /etc/hosts or the Network Information Service (NIS) map hosts.byaddr (“hosts” for short). A host with multiple network interfaces may have more than one Internet address, each with […]