- abbess
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- apprentice
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- beginner
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- Cub
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- ignoramus
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- lay sister
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- mistress
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- neophyte
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- nun
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- raw recruit
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- registered nurse
- religieuse
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- sister
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- superioress
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- tenderfoot
- the reverend mother
- trained nurse
- tyro
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