deaness

Etymology

From dean + -ess.

noun

A nun who serves as dean in a convent.
A female dean (head of a university faculty).“But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan.”
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.”