Sekirov Dictionary

priestess

UK /ˈpriːstɛs/US /ˈpristɪs/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
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(offensive) 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. — 1986
•
(informal, no longer used) 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 […] — 1709

verb1

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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. — 1998

forms

priestessed · priestessing · priestesses

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