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单词 popess
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popessn.

Brit. /pəʊˈpɛs/, /ˈpəʊpᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpoʊpəs/
Forms: 1500s–1600s popesse, 1600s– popess. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pope n.1, -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < pope n.1 + -ess suffix1. Compare German Päpstin (a1533). Compare papess n.
A female pope; (also occasionally) the wife of a pope. Also in extended use.Often used with reference to the legendary Pope Joan (see Pope Joan n.).
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1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 227/2 But were I Pope. By my soule quod he, I would ye wer, & my lady your wife Popesse too.
?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages (new ed.) 272 That Leo whiche, as some saye, preceaded next to that holie Popesse our countrey woman.
1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm 13 O! What a Head did then Christs Temple guide? When a faire Popesse did i'th' Chaire reside?
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 239 His Farewell to her was, Were you but Popess, I would willingly relinquish my Claim.
1714 tr. M. Misson New Voy. Italy (ed. 4) II. i. xxviii. 116 If some Person shou'd think fit to restore the History of our Popess, by Way of a marginal Note.
1780 B. O'Farrell Compar. View Primitive Church & Present Church of Rome xxi. 161 This famous popess mounted the see of Rome after Leo the fourth.
1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry I. 153 In another scene, the Virgin thus intercedes with her Son for the popess [sc. Pope Joan] in purgatory.
1882 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 1 Aug. Third Set—Frank Perkins and the Popess of Rome; Charley Chase and a lady who imagined herself an heiress.
1928 Decatur (Illinois) Herald 11 Nov. 6/4 One day I was sent to see what was wanted by the second highest official, the Vice Popess.
1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) vi. 119 Yolanda Whitney, the pope of the hearthside—or is it popess?
2001 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 4 She [sc. Pope Joan] is missing in our books—could this missing Popess be a result of suppression or negligence of historical documentation?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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