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- noun Archaic spelling of
goddess .
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Examples
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All these things they did in great despite whilest they sacrificed in their temples, and made feasts, namelie in the wood consecrated to the honour of Andates, for so they called the goddesse of victorie whom they worshipped most reuerentlie.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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I think this means the bored goddesse see, you asked for the suffixed E might be a bit less bored.
Weird Ways of the Bored Gods Anne Johnson 2009
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All the Egiptians offer in sacrifice, neither cowe, ne cowe calfe, because they are hallowed to Isis their goddesse, but bulles and bulle calues, or oxen, and stieres.
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And because the Egiptians worshippe their goddesse Apis in the fourme of a cowe, therforethei vse to slea also in sacrifice a cowe.
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The goddes whom thei worshippe, and doe Sacrifice vnto, are these: Firste and chiefly vnto Vesta, then to Iupiter, and the goddesse of the grounde: for that thei take her to be Iupiters wife.
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The maydens of the Anses, at the yerely feastes of Minerua, in the honoure of the goddesse their country woman: deuiding them selues into two companies, vse to giue battaile, one parte to another with staues, and with stones: sayeng that thei obserue the maner of their country in the honour of her that we calle Minerua.
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Yet all in vaine, all works not _Grinuils_ harmes; Which seene, shee smiles, and yet with rage imbost5 Saith to her selfe, since men are all too weake, Behold a goddesse shall thy lifes twine breake.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Of these the third part was round, and the reason of their cutting in such sort (that is two parts chamfered, & the third round) as I thought was this: the frame or temple was dedicated to both sexes, that is, to a god and a goddesse, or to the mother and the son, or to the husband and the wife, or the father and the daughter, and such like.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The Queene with an imperiall Maiestie sitting vppon it, goddesse like, and of a woonderfull magnanimitie in countenance: gorgiously apparrelled in clothe of goulde, with a sumptuous and curious attyre, vpon hir head of a purple couler, with an edging of Orient
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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[Sidenote A: _Dryades_, be Nymphs of the woods.] [Sidenote B: _Feronia_ a goddesse of the woods.]
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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