Definitions for abbes

abbes ab·bé

Spelling: [a-bey, ab-ey; French a- Abbes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in abbes (abbes).

Definitions for abbes

noun

  1. a member of the secular clergy.
  2. a title of respect for any ecclesiastic or clergyman.

Origin of abbes

1520-30; French, Middle French Late Latin abbāte(m), accusative of abbās abbot

Examples for abbes

The house in question had always been occupied by abbes, and it belonged to an old maid named Mademoiselle Gamard.

Although a man who frequents the society of abbes is not thought much more of than one who frequents the society of girls.

Your friends the abbes are well, and always speak of you with affection.

The secret of the Lesbians was only employed, however, by the abbes and the castrata.

The abbes and the Bishops and the priests are alike distrustful and hostile.

It would be impossible to find two figures which presented so many contrasts to each other as those of the two abbes.

The young abbes had taken Care to engross them so, that there seemd to be no Possibility of coming near them.

The fact is, he can not get out of it; he has met the two abbes, twice running, at Ernestine's.

So that whan sche receyueth newe, sche moste restore the olde to the abbes.

"Say frankly, monsieur, not to abbes who force contributions on the highway to carry on the war," retorted the Abbe Gudin.

Word Value for abbes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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