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单词 divineress
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divineressn.

Brit. /dᵻˈvʌɪnərᵻs/, /dᵻˌvʌɪnəˈrɛs/, U.S. /dəˈvaɪnərəs/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s de-, (Middle English -ourese).
Etymology: < Old French devineresse (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), feminine of devineur diviner n.: see -ess suffix1.
A female diviner; a prophetess; a sorceress, witch.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of > female
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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.
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