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popess|ˈpəʊpɪs|
[f. pope n.1 + -ess. Cf. papess.]
A supposed female pope.
1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 227/2 But were I Pope. By my soule quod he, I would ye wer, & my lady your wife Popesse too. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 239 His Farewell to her was, Were you but Popess, I would willingly relinquish my Claim. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 153 In another scene, the Virgin thus intercedes with her Son for the popess [Pope Joan] in purgatory. |