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† clergess Obs. exc. Hist.
[a. OF. clergesse ‘femme lettrée’, also ‘religieuse’ (Godef.): fem. of clerc: see -ess, and note to clergy.]
1. A female scholar, a learned woman.
a1225Ancr. R. 6 Sum is clergesse, & sum nis nout. c1450Merlin xxi. 374 Morgne le fee, hir suster, that was so grete a clergesse.
2. A member of a female religious order.
1393Gower Conf. III. 34 Though the clerke and the clergesse In latin tunge it rede and singe. 1888J. Gillow Bibliog. Dict. Eng. Cath. III. 197 She received the first habit of clergess on the feast of the Assumption. |