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sorceress|ˈsɔːsərɪs|
Also 6–7 sorceres.
[a. AF. sorceresse, -esce: see sorcer and -ess1.]
1. A female sorcerer; a witch.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 1262 Ther saugh I..charmeresses, Olde wrecches, Sorceresses, That vse exorsisacions. 1390Gower Conf. III. 49 Thes queenes were as tuo goddesses Of Art magique Sorceresses. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. iv. 187 Sore I am of these quenes sorceresses aferd. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. (Percy Soc.) 188 The sorceresse, the false roote of doloure, All of golde..Of the best made the head serpentyne. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 112 Jhon duke of Alaunson and his sorceresse Jone (called the mayde, sent from God). 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 173 Diogenes..witnesseth Medea to have been not a sorceresse, but a woman of knowne wisdome. 1671Milton Samson 819 How cunningly the sorceress displays Her own transgressions, to upbraid me mine! a1740Waterland Wks. (1823) IX. 413 How unlikely is it that God should make use of this sorceress as a prophetess, and should give her the honour of revealing his counsels. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 242 This may be one of those Northern sorceresses of whom we have heard. 1885Pater Marius the Epicurean I. v. 62 In one very remote village lives the sorceress Pamphile.
transf.a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 95 Much more mysterious is my inbred Lust; In no one thing I can the Sorc'ress trust.
attrib.1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 319 Armida, the sorceress-niece of the Sultan of Damascus. 1877‘Rita’ Vivienne iii. vi, Blanche repaid him with sorceress smiles and false kisses.
b. In playful or familiar use.
c1800H. K. White Lett. (1837) 282 Sorceress! I cannot burst thy bonds! 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, Ah! you witch-mother, you sorceress! How is a Christian man to win a game off you? |