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predictress

noun

Etymology

From predictor + -ess.

  1. borrowed from praedicō
  2. suffixed as predictor — “predict + -or”
  3. suffixed as predictress — “predictor + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female predictor.

    • προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.
    • Who did not hear the Hertfordshire predictress, / E’en in the council-room, assure our men / These measures were approved of from above, / And ratified by heavenly sanction?

The neighborhood

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