(n.) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.
Example Sentences:
(1) What else could explain, for example, her choice of a convent to situate her satire of Watergate, The Abbess of Crewe (1974), or, most famously, that of an elite girls' school for her study of fascism in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
(2) Route to success Lines: 14 Length: 211.3km (131.3 miles) Stations: 297 Budget (1998): £780m Staff: 9,100, including 3,000 drivers Ticket price: 8 francs (75p) or a carnet of 10 for 58 francs (£5.50) Total journeys (1998): 1.3bn Average number of daily departures: 5,500 Average number of daily users (1998): 4.4m Deepest station: Abbesses (36 metres) Busiest station: Saint-Lazare (32m passengers a year) 1903: fire kills 84 at Couronnes station; wooden benches replaced with metal ones 1910: Seine overflows, flooding most of network and affecting services for three months 1943: Allied air raid blows in roof of Porte de Saint-Cloud station, killing 403 people 1955: first pneumatic tyres 1968: first magnetic ticket-machines 1982: first woman metro driver 1991: first-class carriages abandoned 1992: Smoking banned - allegedly 1999: First unmanned line (No 14) opened
(3) The postmark shown, with "67" encircled, identifies a post office in Place des Abbesses in Paris, close to Theo's apartment.
(4) In the 12th century, the abbess Heloise advocated ideals which on the one hand questioned the medieval image of woman, while on the other hand she sought to be in accordance with the socially domineering male (Abaelard) who represented the intellectual life.
Amma
Definition:
(n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wondered whether Amma felt like more of a mother to her than her real mother.
(2) Backed by big names such as Jessica Chastain, Juliette Binoche, Queen Latifah, Freida Pinto and Amma Asante, it will announce its first project at Cannes in May.
(3) We've seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven't been – what they've been is industry fads Amma Asante “At this time last year a lot of questions I was getting from the press and people in the industry was ‘do you think we’ve hit a turning point?’ And it was a question that was nagging at me as well: have we finally hit a point where we’ve made a breakthrough?” “I was worried because we’ve seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven’t been – what they’ve been is industry fads.
(4) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
(5) This piece was amended on 23 February 2015 to correct the spelling of Amma Asante’s name.
(6) The effects of acetylethylcholine mustard and its aziridinium derivative (AMMA) on acetylcholine (ACh) release and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) binding were studied in rat cortical synaptosomes.
(7) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
(8) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - "mother of immortal bliss", otherwise known simply as Amma, or "mum" - is said to be the divine embodiment of pure, selfless love.
(9) I've been to many hospitals," he said, gesturing to his shoulders and knees, "but once Amma is hugging me, all my problems will be gone, for sure."
(10) Since then, she had spent everything she had on Amma's organisation, taking summer jobs and using money left to her by her grandparents to pay for trips to Amritapuri, before moving here permanently four years ago.
(11) Devotees buy apples, oranges and bananas from stalls next to the stage to give Amma as an offering when they go up to get a hug.
(12) There's a cafe that serves perfect cappuccinos, lattes, pizzas and burgers, an in-house travel agent, an internet centre and a souvenir stand that sells everything from books, posters, DVDs and CDs to Amma dolls, calendars, fridge magnets and soap.
(13) It was shown that solutions of 3-AMMA were rather stable in weak acid and neutral media and degraded at pH greater than 9.0.
(14) She was 22, but hadbeen a devotee since she was 12, after she had her first hug on one of Amma's European tours.
(15) But for Amma Attar, who has spent more than a month living with 36 family members in a UN school in Gaza after fleeing her home amid shelling and shooting, it is close to a miracle.
(16) AMMA and oxotremorine both reduced the basal and 30 mM K+-induced release of newly synthesized [3H]ACh in dose-dependent manners over a 2.5-min period.
(17) My hug with Amma felt like an intimate experience, but it's one she has already shared with more than 30 million people around the world.
(18) AMMA (50 microM) reduced high-affinity choline uptake and ACh synthesis by greater than 90% in this tissue, but these effects did not account for the [3H]ACh release inhibition, because they were not atropine sensitive and hemicholinium-3 had no effect on [3H]ACh release under the conditions used in these studies, i.e., after extracellular [3H]choline was washed out.
(19) For Pikser the makeup of the academy is an extension of the industry as a whole: “Hollywood has created an audience and an expectation and the racism of society is built into the business model.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amma Asante, right, directs Sarah Gadon and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle.
(20) The inhibition of basal and 30 mM K+-induced [3H]ACh release by AMMA (10-250 microM) was blocked by 2 microM atropine during a 2.5-min release incubation, but not during a 30-min release incubation.