Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology A priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- noun A prophetess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Pythia or especial priestess of Apollo at his temple at Delphi, who was supposed to be inspired to give his oracular answers; hence, any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a witch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
- noun Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative capitalization of
Pythoness - noun A female
soothsayer - noun A female python.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a witch with powers of divination
- noun (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She was known as the Kansas pythoness in those days before women's suffrage made such references to a woman's sex politically incorrect.
Ken Blackwell: Piddler on the Roof Ken Blackwell 2011
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She was known as the Kansas pythoness in those days before women's suffrage made such references to a woman's sex politically incorrect.
Ken Blackwell: Piddler on the Roof Ken Blackwell 2011
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Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti.
The After Wife Lexi Davis 2009
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Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti.
The After Wife Lexi Davis 2009
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Like a pythoness possessed by the demon, she inspired awe rather than pleasure.
The Magic Skin 2007
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It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur.
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The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function.
Some Travel Writing 2005
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Alone like a pythoness on her tripod, like the oracle alone above the fissure into the unknown.
Kangaroo 2004
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He had approached the family mansion in so blindly buoyant a spirit as to have set up his camera to photograph his first sight of it; and even the camera had taken on the semblance of the tripod of a tragic pythoness.
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