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priestess

noun
/ˈpriːstɛs/UK/ˈpristɪs/US

Etymology

From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress.

  1. derived from prestre
  2. derived from πρεσβύτερος
  3. derived from presbyter
  4. inherited from preost
  5. inherited from prest
  6. suffixed as priestess — “priest + ess”

Definitions

  1. A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

  2. A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or…

    A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.

    • He has cleverly figured out that the deluded pro-priestess faction of the church already has its necessary two-thirds majority and that the time to act is now.

  3. A priest’s wife.

    • As ſoon as they were parted, the Prieſteſs flounced out of the Houſe, call'd for her Coachman, and bid him put in his Horſes, for away would ſhe go […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.

      • Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.
      • Priestessing the earth is for me personally the only natural response to the awe and deep love this evokes in me.
      • I priestessed the ceremony. I played Hecate. One time I played Demeter and my daughter played Persephone.

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