Carmelitess

plural Carmelitesses

1. historicalA woman form Mount Carmel in Judah.

   Mara was a Carmelitess, a daughter of Eliada, of the tribe of Judah.

   1826, N. W. Oliver, Sephora: A Hebrew Tale

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   An embassy took place here when David was united in marriage to a Carmelitess, who at a future period was, with other of her sex, taken captive in a war with the Amalekites.”

   1847, William Rae Wilson, Travels in the Holy Land, page 60

   In the same Bible we have a character like Deborah, or like the fearless Jael, and we have the sweet simplicity of the daughterly affection and obedience of the Moabitess Ruth, the shrewd intelligence and womanly dignity of the Carmelitess Abigail, and the beautiful faith and fidelity of Hannah.

   1880, Bibliotheca Sacra - Volume 37, page 219

2. A Carmelite nun.

   Our Mistress of Novices was a true saint, the very type of a primitive Carmelitess.

   1901, Saint Thérèse (de Lisieux), The Little Flower of Jesus

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   When she sang, it was with a similar effect for him; when she played, she seemed only to celebrate the perishableness, the nothingness, of the music, and the pleasure it gave rise to: and her dress, which was always handsome and gracefully disposed, seemed ever to be on the verge, like the first disguises of the Columbine in a pantomime, of changing into the attire of a Carmelitess or Poor Clare.

   1856, The Beleaguered Hearth, page 21

   The order of Carmelitesses, or Carmelite Nuns, was instituted 1452, and is very numerous in Italy.

   1888, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language