单词 | divineress |
释义 | divineressn. A female diviner; a prophetess; a sorceress, witch. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of > female divineressc1374 pythonessa1393 Pythonissac1395 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1522 Þow sorceresse With al þi fals gost of prophesie Thow wenest ben a grete deuyneresse! 1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 14 The said woman of Yreland, that clepid herself a dyvenourese. 1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. vi And Cassandra, hys doughter, the devyneresse. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. M.ij A woman diuineresse, or contrary, a sothsayer. 1678 H. More Let. 25 May 41 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Do the office of a Divineress or a Wise woman. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. ii. 290 A black Divineress of the Tropics prophesied..that she should be a Queen. 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno xx The wretched women who..made themselves divineresses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1374 |
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