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  • noun Plural form of priestess.

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Examples

  • One of the priestesses was an alchemist and had readily agreed to mix up an invisibility potion.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • One of the priestesses was an alchemist and had readily agreed to mix up an invisibility potion.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • The priestesses were a rich, influential sisterhood who had contrived somehow to survive during the long civil wars between the kingdoms and even to prosper in difficult times.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • As the mysteries of Ceres were celebrated by female priests, for Porphyrius says the antients called the priestesses of Ceres, Melissai, or bees, which were emblems of chastity.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • As a Christian, and as a priest, I find the notion of priestesses unthinkable.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • When it Rains, it Pours -- More "priestesses" in Minnesota

    When it Rains, it Pours -- More "priestesses" in Minnesota 2006

  • The Cafeteria is Closed has a fun post on the recent ordination of women ' priestesses' on a boat in Pittsburgh by 'Bishopessses' no less - as European news agencies have dubbed them.

    Comic Relief! Terry Nelson 2006

  • The Cafeteria is Closed has a fun post on the recent ordination of women ' priestesses' on a boat in Pittsburgh by 'Bishopessses' no less - as European news agencies have dubbed them.

    Archive 2006-06-25 Terry Nelson 2006

  • But if you are championing some wayward new-age clap-trap equating women to "priestesses" as in the other sects, you are severely misguided.

    National Catholic Reporter 2009

  • He laid the * foundations* for a priesthood within a tradition and a world in which 'priestesses' were simply unHebrew and unthinkable.

    WordPress.com News 2008

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