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From Briton +‎ -ess.

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  • And Saint Lumanus having landed at the aforementioned town of Athtrym, he converted unto the faith of Christ first Forkernus, the son of a certain great man who there ruled, then his mother, a Britoness by nation, and lastly his father, Fethleminus, and in a fountain which by his prayers he produced out of the earth, even before their eyes, did he baptize them and many others.

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • Phillis grumbled a little over this additional labor, though, at the same time, no one worked harder than she; but she was careful to explain that it was her right, as a freeborn Britoness, to grumble, and that it was as much a relief to her peculiar constitution as a good long yawn is to some people.

    Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

  • Thither at their will they haled the yellow-ringleted Britoness --

    Enoch Arden & c. 1863

  • "Sleep on, proud Britoness!" he exclaims over a woman at rest in the grave she had purchased.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

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