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- noun Plural form of
prophetess .
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How the sin of these false prophetesses is described, and what are the particulars of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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"As you may know, the Montanists did ordain women to the presbyterate (and had a unique order of" prophetesses "as well), but when an agreement was reached to reincorporate them into the Catholic Orthodox Church, Montanist priests were allowed retain their orders upon making an orthodox profession of faith, while priestesses were laicized (it is not clear whether any were allowed to enter the order of Deaconesses)."
The Continuum 2008
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"We are odd people, it may be, in England; we are not fond of prophets or 'prophetesses' [a reference to her of La Mancha about whom Borrow had previously been rebuked].
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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It was a time of visions and miracles, while seers and prophetesses were legion.
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For the Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, she was becoming a special muse in the model of the bloodline women who had come before—the prophetesses and scribes who would not only preserve the true teachings but contribute to them in a new world.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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Her own prophetesses had foreseen that she would one day travel far to find the king with whom she would perform the hieros-gamos, the sacred marriage that combined the body with the mind and spirit in the act of divine union.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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They were teachers and healers, prophetesses with a hidden legacy of prayer and traditions that harkened back to the earliest days of Christianity.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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The Talmud (Megillah 14a) states that there were forty-eight prophets and seven prophetesses who prophesied to the people of Israel.
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The movement was quickly suppressed, with the leading prophetesses burnt at the stake, but clandestine allegiance to some residual form of Judaism persisted among the conversos for generations, usually in the privacy of their homes, where it was transmitted and supervised chiefly by their womenfolk.
Sabbateanism. 2009
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The preponderance of virgins among these prophetesses may not be entirely accidental.
Sabbateanism. 2009
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