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bishopesses

bishopesses is the plural of bishopess.

Meaning of bishopess

Noun

bishopess (plural bishopesses)

  1. A female bishop.
    • Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests.2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans
  2. The wife of a bishop.

Questions about bishopesses

What is bishopesses the plural of?
Bishopesses is the plural of bishopess.

Words near bishopesses in the dictionary

  1. Bishopbriggs
  2. bishopdom
  3. bishopdoms
  4. bishoped
  5. bishopess
  6. bishopesses
  7. bishophood
  8. bishoping
  9. bishopless
  10. bishoplet
  11. bishoplets

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