Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female deliverer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A female deliverer.
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- noun archaic A
female deliverer .
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Examples
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At Crotoy, Joan of Arc was permitted to assist at the celebration of the Mass in the chapel of the castle; and while here she received a visit from some of her admirers from Abbeville -- a few noble hearts who still remained loyal to the once all-powerful deliveress of their country, now a poor and abandoned prisoner on her road to a long imprisonment and a cruel death!
Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880
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Every faculty seemed sharpened and every sense quickened as the "strong deliveress" approached, and the ardent soul was released from the frame that could no longer contain it.
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Emma Lazarus 1868
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Every faculty seemed sharpened and every sense quickened as the "strong deliveress" approached, and the ardent soul was released from the frame that could no longer contain it.
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations Emma Lazarus 1868
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My deliveress went into a closet, and while she was absent, I repeated my obligations to the mother as well as the daughter.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791
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At Crotoy, Joan of Arc was permitted to assist at the celebration of the Mass in the chapel of the castle; and while here she received a visit from some of her admirers from Abbeville ” a few noble hearts who still remained loyal to the once all-powerful deliveress of their country, now a poor and abandoned prisoner on her road to a long imprisonment and a cruel death!
Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893
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