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saintess|ˈseɪntɪs|
[f. saint n. + -ess.]
A female saint.
1449in Nichols Illustr. Manners Ant. Times 132, Y beseche al the glorious seyntes and seyntesses in heaven [etc.]. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richm. Wks. (1876) 306 The moost blessyd company of sayntes and sayntesses. 1625Jackson Creed v. xxviii. §1 Saints are not our immediate intercessors, but some Saintesse may make immediate intercession. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 287/2 This Maid of Orleans, whom divers French Historians picture out as a Saintess. 1865Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) I. 334, I made a speech likening her to all the crowned saintesses in ecclesiastical history. |