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deliveress rare.|dɪˈlɪvərɪs| [Short for delivreress, f. deliverer + -ess, in F. délivreresse: see -ess.] A female deliverer.
1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 72 At one side of the cross, kneels Charles VII armed, and at the other Joan d'Arc..as the deliveress of the town. 1839Q. Rev. June 98 Nancy comes like the deliveress of the pious æneas. |