OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6938

priestess

/ˈpriːstɛs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sacerdotisa
A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
Among the Northern tribes also the woman was held in all moral aspects the equal of man. Alike the blue-eyed wife of the Barbarian and the proud Roman matron were, as the bearers a…
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…