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Definition of: hegumene
(hə·gy
′mə·nē) noun
In the Eastern Church, the head of a nunnery: similar to an abbess in the Western Church. [<Gk. hēgoumenē, fem. var. of hēgeomenos. See HEGUMEN.]
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