Divineress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female diviner. archaic

    "The mad Divineress had plainly writ, A time shou'd come (but many ages yet,) In which, sinister destinies ordain"

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"The mad Divineress had plainly writ, A time shou'd come (but many ages yet,) In which, sinister destinies ordain"

Etymology

From Middle English divyneresse, devyneresse, dyvyneresse, dyveneras, dyvenourese; equivalent to diviner + -ess.

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