Priestess

Quick meaning: Priestess is a noun meaning A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

Meaning

A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, obsolete) A priest’s wife.
2. (transitive) To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.
3. (religious slur, uncommon) A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.

Example Sentences

Priestessing the earth is for me personally the only natural response to the awe and deep love this evokes in me.

As ſoon as they were parted, the Prieſteſs flounced out of the Houſe, call'd for her Coachman, and bid him put in his Horſes, for away would ſhe go […]

Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.

He has cleverly figured out that the deluded pro-priestess faction of the church already has its necessary two-thirds majority and that the time to act is now.

Word Forms

• priestesses
• priestress
• priestessing
• priestessed

Synonyms for priestess

Depending on context, synonyms include gythja, kahuna, mamaloi, mambo, miko, presbytera.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shaman, priestesshood, elder, goddess, lady, druidess.

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