Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bride or wife; a married woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A wife or bride.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
wife orbride .
Etymologies
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From spouse + -ess
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Examples
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‘spousess’ (Prov.v. 19); ‘thralless’ (Jer.xxxiv. 16); ‘dwelleress’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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