priestess
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈpriːstɛs/|/priːˈstɛs/
美 /ˈpristɪs/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
— Sir Knight, said she (whose looks, language, and gesture create strange thoughts within me) be pleased to know, that I am (I will not say the first) of those Ladies of Honour, who wait upon the high-born, illustrious, and refulgent Maulkina, Daughter to the high and mighty Prince Paraclet, Prince of No-Land, on the confines of whose Territories we now are, so it is that the Divine Maulkina having been a vowed Votaress to Diana (whose Priestess she was, and whose Oracles she exhibited) upon a night as she sat at the feet of the Image of that chaste Deity […]
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A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.
— The “extenuating circumstances” set forth by the Rev. Mr. Higgins certainly bring home not only the nature of Bishop Hall's problem but its cause; however, the problems of parish life under a deaconess are insignificant in comparison with the very grave issues raised by the ordination of a priestess.
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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 […]
动词 v.
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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.
词源
词源 1
From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress.
词源 2
From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress.
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