Meaning of deaness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A nun who serves as dean in a convent.
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2. A female dean (head of a university faculty).
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3. The wife of a dean.
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Examples

“But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan.”

“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.”

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