Predictress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female predictor.
"προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet."
Example
More examples"προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet."
Etymology
From predictor + -ess.
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