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Deaconess

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A non-clerical role for women in some churches.
  2. 2
    a woman deacon wordnet
  3. 3
    A female deacon. rare
  4. 4
    A female servant in the early Christian church.
  5. 5
    The nun in charge of the altar in a convent.
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  1. 6
    One of an order of women in some Protestant churches who nurse the sick and tend the poor.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dekenesse; equivalent to deacon + -ess.

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