单词 | deliveress |
释义 | deliveressn. rare. A female deliverer (in various senses of the noun); in early use esp. a woman who sets free or releases someone from harm or danger. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers > female saviouress1563 deliveress1608 redemptrice1755 redemptress1849 1608 T. Price tr. O. Torsellino Hist. Our B. Lady of Loreto ii. xxiv. 208 He came to the House of Loreto, to salute his Patronesse and deliueresse. 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 72 At one side of the cross, kneels Charles VII armed, and at the other Joan d'Arc..as the deliveress of the town. 1793 W. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris iii. 89 His expanding heart is all unlockt to the transporting pleasure of delivering thee, his deliveress, from thy banishment. 1839 Q. Rev. June 98 Nancy comes like the deliveress of the pious Æneas. 1974 Havre (Montana) Daily News 7 Nov. 10/3 The nurse shall be a primary deliveress of health care. 2010 @Contentable__ 24 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Feb. 2020) Pizza was dry and poor and garlic bread didn't turn up. Very pleasant deliveress though. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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