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prelatesses

prelatesses is the plural of prelatess.

Meaning of prelatess

Noun

prelatess (plural prelatesses)

  1. (archaic) A female prelate.
  2. (archaic) The wife of a prelate.
    • rheumatic old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

Questions about prelatesses

What is prelatesses the plural of?
Prelatesses is the plural of prelatess.

Words near prelatesses in the dictionary

  1. prelateity
  2. prelates
  3. prelateship
  4. prelateships
  5. prelatess
  6. prelatesses
  7. prelatial
  8. prelatic
  9. prelatical
  10. prelatically
  11. prelatick

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