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Mormonesses

Mormonesses is the plural of Mormoness.

Meaning of Mormoness

Noun

Mormoness (plural Mormonesses)

  1. (dated, rare) A female Mormon.
    • Zilpha, being just Hiram's age, as was woman's right, blossomed first, and became a demure, marriageable little Mormoness in long dresses (or, as a perverse Gentile friend used to call Mormon little girls, a "Mormoniculess," Mormon little boys being similarly "Mormonicles")," while Hiram was...1871, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent

Questions about Mormonesses

What is Mormonesses the plural of?
Mormonesses is the plural of Mormoness.

Words near Mormonesses in the dictionary

  1. Mormon tea
  2. Mormon teas
  3. Mormondom
  4. Mormondumb
  5. Mormoness
  6. Mormonesses
  7. Mormonier
  8. Mormoniest
  9. Mormonisation
  10. Mormonise
  11. Mormonised

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