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Jewess|ˈdʒ(j)uːɪs|
Forms: 4 Iuwesse, Iuesse, 4–7 Iewesse, (6 Iewes, -as), 7– Jewess.
[f. Jew n. + -ess: cf. OF. Juise (Godefroy).]
A female Jew; a Jewish woman.
1388Wyclif Acts xvi. 1 Timothe, the sone of a Jewesse cristen. a1400Pistill of Susan 41 For gentrise and Ioye of þat Iuwesse. 1526Tindale Acts xxiv. 24 Felix and his wyfe Drusilla which was a iewes [1534 Iewas, 1539 Cranmer Iewesse, 1611 Iew]. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 214 note, For the Virgin Mary, say they, wore the Ring on her middle finger, and therefore all Iewesses refuse that, and use the forefinger. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxiv, The Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xvii, I am English-born. But I am a Jewess. 1922Joyce Ulysses 756 As if we met somewhere I suppose on account of my being jewess looking after my mother. 1927E. O'Neill Lazarus Laughed ii. ii. 84 And why should you plead for them, Jewess? 1936G. B. Shaw Millionairess ii. 39 ‘Are you..[an] Italian aristocrat..?’..‘My ancestors were moneylenders to all Europe..we are now bankers to all the world.’ ..‘Jewess, eh?’ 1970J. Updike Bech: a Book 35 ‘Is she also a typical Rumanian beauty?’ ‘I think..she is a typical little Jewess.’ |