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单词 patriarchess
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patriarchessn.

Brit. /peɪtrɪɑːˈkɛs/, /patrɪɑːˈkɛs/, U.S. /ˌpeɪtriɑrˈkɛs/
Forms: 1600s patriarchesse, 1700s– patriarchess.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: patriarch n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < patriarch n. + -ess suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin patriarchissa (12th–13th cent. in an Italian source), Old French patriarcesce (c1200; French patriarchesse, from the first half of the 18th cent. or earlier, now rare).
1. The wife of a patriarch; a woman with the role of a patriarch.
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1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxix. 95 She was generally saluted, The Patriarchesse.
1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 19 Sarah (if I may so call her) the Patriarchesse.
1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 199 The History of the Patriarchess of Constantinople is not so improbable.
1844 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 99 She looks like what she is—the patriarchess of a large family.
1856 J. B. Wolfsden 391 They perhaps already fancied themselves the patriarch and patriarchess of an Abrahamic household.
1912 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 17 754 He secretly consoled his wife for her ill-treatment at the hands of the patriarchess by saying that the latter was old and barked at everybody.
1978 Eng. Hist. Rev. 93 5 Heraclius's..mistress..was the mother of his daughter and known to the inhabitants of Jerusalem as the ‘patriarchess’.
2. The oldest woman in a community. Obsolete. rare.
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1882 Echo 14 Apr. 4/2 Yesterday..the patriarchess of the district, attain[ed] her 100th year, being born on the 12th April, 1782.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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