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divineress|dɪˈvaɪnərɪs|
Also 4–6 de-, (5 -ourese).
[a. OF. devineresse (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), fem. of devineur diviner: see -ess.]
A female diviner; a prophetess; a sorceress, witch.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1522 Þow sorceresse With al þi fals gost of prophesie Thow wenest ben a grete deuyneresse! 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 14 The said woman of Yreland, that clepid herself a dyvenourese. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. vi, And Cassandra, hys doughter, the devyneresse. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xxvi. (1546) M ij, A woman diuineresse, or contrary, a sothsayer. 1681H. More Postscript to Glanvill's Sadducismus i. (1726) 24 Do the office of a Divineress, or a Wise-woman. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. ii. (1872) 177 A black Divineress of the Tropics prophesied..that she should be a Queen. 1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno xx, The wretched women who..made themselves divineresses. |