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vicaress en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English vicar Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English vicaress From vicar + -ess.

Meanings

1. A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
2. A female representative.
3. The wife of a parish vicar.
   • Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy's dithyrambics on morals. 1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers, Harper and Brothers:

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