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bishopess|ˈbɪʃəpɪs|
[f. bishop n. + -ess.]
1. The wife of a bishop. (Only a nonce-word.)
1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 240 The Councils of that age call their Wives by the name of (Episcopa) the Bishopess. 1748Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. 489 We..found the bishop and his bishopess very well. 1885Q. Rev. July 184 note, Sophia did not take the title of Bishopess or even Princess of Osnabruck.
2. A female- or she-bishop. (Here used jestingly.)
1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 30, I enclose you a rude scrap representing the bishopess of Clapham. 1880Macm. Mag. Dec. 149 Can you conceive such a thing as the notion of a bishopess? |