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Seeress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female seer.

    "Following the old pagan form she sits a moment upon him in token of surrender, like the Delphian seeress on Apollo’s tripod. After receiving the breath of his spirit, the sacrament of his love, she purifies herself with like formal solemnity. Thenceforth she is a living altar."

Etymology

From seer + -ess.

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