How do you pronounce deess?

The recorded pronunciation is /deɪˈ(j)ɛs/.

deess

/deɪˈ(j)ɛs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Obsolete

"He does so much magnifie Nature and her actings in all this material world, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joint deess with God in the affairs thereof."
"The Hindus "take the bull by the horns" and boldly make "sítlá" (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction."

Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).

deesses (plural)

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