deaness
nounEtymology From dean + -ess.
1
Rare A nun who serves as dean in a convent.
2
Rare A 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
Rare The 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: