† devotessen.
Obsolete. rare.
A female devotee.
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1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified ix. 193 Are not Governants, and Devotesses, besides ordinary maidservants, women?.. Let themselves be Iudges whether a Woman a wife, or a Woman a Governant or a Devotesse, be more properly to be ranged under the name.
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n.1658- to have the worst of
- to have the worst of it
- to have the wrong
- to have the wrong end of the stick
- to have the wrong pig by the ear
- to have the wrong pig by the tail
- to have things one's own way
- to have things one's way
- to have thoughts
- to have thoughts of
- to have tickets on
- to have tickets on oneself
- to have time on one's hands
- to have tin hats
- to have to burn
- to have to do
- to have to do mid
- to have to do of
- to have to do on
- to have to do with
- to have to eat
- to have to farm
- to have to game
- to have to mastery
- to have to name