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- noun dated A
female Jesuit .
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A pleasing variant of the theme is the introduction of the Jesuitess, the female accomplice of the Society, typically a much more vindictive character than the male of the species.
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003
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‘pandress’ (both in Middleton); ‘papess’, ‘Jesuitess’ (Bishop Hall);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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