Priestess
['priːstɪs]
Definition
(n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.
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Examples
- Like a priestess she looked, unconscious, sunk in a heavy half-trance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From the hangings and sumptuous furniture of the room I judged it to be a living-room of some priestess, possibly of Issus herself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And very mean, my little pastor, my pretty priestess. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She erected a temple for him in the depth of her being, and each faculty was a priestess vowed to his service. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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