单词 | preacheress |
释义 | preacheressn. A female preacher. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > female predicantess1647 preacheress1649 predicatress1669 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 365 In the Heb. this word is..in the Feminine Gender; and so may be translated exactly, The Congregatrix, or the Preacheresse. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 231 How come we by this preacheress? 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 16 Nov. 3/4 This formerly eccentric and celebrated preacheress, has paid that debt, against which a Court of Insolvency can have no jurisdiction. 1880 T. Fowler Locke vi. 101 They listened to the famous Quaker preacheress, Rebecca Collier. 1903 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 31 July 5/6 She found a bashful young German standing on the step... ‘Good afternoon,’ the preacheress remarked. 1981 Church Times 7 Aug. 5/3 The preacheress was a frequent visitor to his parish when he was Vicar of Frankby, Cheshire, during the last war. 2002 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 4 Nov. 25 The New Age preacheress who presided over his funeral deemed it appropriate to introduce the theme of ‘forgiveness’ into the service. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649 |
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