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divineress en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English divyneresse, devyneresse, dyvyneresse, dyveneras, dyvenourese; equivalent to diviner + -ess.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A female diviner.
   • The mad Divineress had plainly writ, A time shou'd come (but many ages yet,) In which, sinister destinies ordain 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
   • Altogether, with her snowy raiment and white flesh and passionless face, she seems rather a beautiful living statue than a Japanese maiden. And all the while the weird flutes sob and shrill, and the muttering of the drums is like an incantation. What I have seen is called the Dance of the Miko, the Divineress. 1894, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, series 1:

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