Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

divineress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: di-viner-ess
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female diviner.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"The mad Divineress had plainly writ, A time shou'd come (but many ages yet,) In which, sinister destinies ordain"
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: divyneresse
Suffix: diviner

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

divineresses (plural)

Questions

What does divineress mean?: A female diviner.
Where does divineress come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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