deess
See also: de-ess
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
deess (plural deesses)
- (obsolete) A goddess.
- 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop)
- 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.
- 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)