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- noun Plural form of
priestess .
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Examples
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One of the priestesses was an alchemist and had readily agreed to mix up an invisibility potion.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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One of the priestesses was an alchemist and had readily agreed to mix up an invisibility potion.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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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
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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
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As a Christian, and as a priest, I find the notion of priestesses unthinkable.
WordPress.com News 2008
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When it Rains, it Pours -- More "priestesses" in Minnesota
When it Rains, it Pours -- More "priestesses" in Minnesota 2006
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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
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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
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But if you are championing some wayward new-age clap-trap equating women to "priestesses" as in the other sects, you are severely misguided.
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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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