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pythoness

noun

Etymology

From Late Latin pythonissa, from Ancient Greek Πυθία (Puthía). Compare Pythia.

  1. derived from Πύθων
  2. derived from pȳthon
  3. suffixed as pythoness — “python + ess”

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness.

  2. A female soothsayer

  3. A female python.

    • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

      • Less becomingly Origen states that when the Pythoness sat down at the mouth of the cave, "the prophetic spirit of Apollo entered her private parts"; ...

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pythoness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA