Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female minister, in any sense.
- noun A mistress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who ministers.
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- noun archaic A
woman whoministers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The former prime ministress of France in some sense got in trouble for saying publicly what everybody else was saying privately.
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America 1992
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He behaves in the most amiable and, indeed, noble fashion, instals her in his rooms, turns himself and his servant out to the nearest hotel, fetches the proper ministress, and, not content with this Good
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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And thus much of the magistrates over Christ's flock in the primitive church; for the office of a minister, or ministress, was to be subject to the flock, and to serve them in those things which appertain to their temporal business.
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‘vowess’ (Holinshed); ‘ministress’, ‘flatteress’ (both in Holland);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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'im, why don't you ask him "(instinctively the old ministress of love speaks here)" ask' im to take you over to Paris for a trip?
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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