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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the early church, one of the elder women in the order of widows, presiding among these, and having authority to teach.
- n. In the early church, and in the medieval church, a priest's wife, especially one living apart from her husband; a priest's widow; later, a priest's concubine.
Wiktionary
- n. A female presbyter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A female presbyter.
Examples
“Syntyche, Tryphoena and Tryphosa and Persis, debating their status, and deciding what was the difference between a prophetess and presbyteress, what the standing of a deaconess in the pre-Nicene Church and what in the post-Nicene Church, the”
“Not literally that a presbyter who rules well should get double the salary of one who does not rule well [Alford], or of a presbyteress widow, or of the deacons [Chrysostom].”
“They had pledged "their first faith" to Christ as presbyteress widows; they now wish to transfer their faith to a husband (compare 1Co 7: 32, 34).”
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