deaness

plural deanesses

1. rareA nun who serves as dean in a convent.
2. rareA female dean (head of a university faculty).

   But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan.

   1986 June 4, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 86, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, page 2

3. rareThe wife of a dean.

   And as dean, with the help of his deaness, Eva Howe Stevens, he entertained every student in his home every year and made Cornell a Shangri-la.

   1969, “Stevens of Cornell: A Man for All Seasons”, in Arthur John Keeffe, editor, ABA Journal, volume 55, Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, →ISSN, page 495