Deaness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A nun who serves as dean in a convent. rare
  2. 2
    A female dean (head of a university faculty). rare

    "But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan."

  3. 3
    The wife of a dean. rare

    "And as dean, with the help of his deaness, Eva Howe Stevens, he entertained every student in his home every year and made Cornell a Shangri-la."

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"But now comes Deaness Kathleen Deignan."

Etymology

From dean + -ess.

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