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How to use priestess in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Priestess means a woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions. Example: “Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.”

Examples of priestess by meaning

verbTo oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.

  • Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.1998, Wendy Hunter Roberts, Celebrating Her: Feminist Ritualizing Comes of Age, page 124
  • Priestessing the earth is for me personally the only natural response to the awe and deep love this evokes in me.2014, Danu Forest, Celtic Tree Magic: Ogham Lore and Druid Mysteries
  • I priestessed the ceremony.2014, John C. Sulak, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Oberon Zell, The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

More sentences with priestess

  • Anya Kless is a dual-tradition, polytheistic pagan priestess, godspouse, and spirit worker.2012, Gina Pond, Sarah Thompson, Calyxa Omphalos, Philip Tanner, Jacobo Polanshek, Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism, Circle of…. From the entry godspouse
  • Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.2007, Debra Oswald., Getting Air, page 66. From the entry bags
  • Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems.2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans. From the entry validly
  • But the high priestess isn’t fazed: “Don’t worry if it separates.1987, Joanne Kates, “Food People: From the Hatcheck Girl to the Tsar of No Name”, in The Taste of Things, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University…. From the entry cheesey
  • She ate the food a priestess brought her – it was just gruel, but it didn’t have any poison.2016 September 13, Beth Goobie, chapter 11, in The Pain Eater, Toronto, Ont.: Second Story Press, published 2017, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry life's a bitch, and then you die
  • Although all worshipers of Santería could be called Santeros, the term usually refers to the priests or priestesses.2008, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, and Wicca, page 311. From the entry santería
  • It was Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, prophesying.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1. From the entry prophesy
  • Her career as a performer, a model and a high priestess of the outré has been rooted for decades in catwalk-Kabuki mischief and provocation.2015 October 22, Jeff Gordinier, “‘I’ll Never Write My Memoirs,’ Grace Jones’s Memoirs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry outré
  • In the concluding pages of this minisaga (Herodotus 1. 90-91), Croesus sends to inquire of the priestess of Apollo why the oracle had misled him.1999, Mark P O Morford, Robert J Lenardon, Classical Mythology. From the entry minisaga
  • In both Rada and Petwo modes of ritualizing, it is customary for ounsis to show respect to priests and priestesses through such ritual salutations.1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 214. From the entry hounsi
  • “My strain has remained clearer than the rest because for countless ages my foremothers were high priestesses—the sacred office descends from mother to daughter.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 172. From the entry foremother
  • Greta Thunberg is denounced as the “great priestess” (D2; F10; M2), a new “goddess” (L4), a “climatic guru” or an “ecolo-catastrophist shaman” (F7) prophesising as an “oracle” (L4).2020 spring, Lise Benoist, “Green is the new brown – Ecology in the metapolitics of the French far right today”, master’s thesis. From the entry Thunbergian
  • She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.1998, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin. From the entry cyber
  • If Dr Anderson is a high priest of access, then Ms Wheen, itinerant commentatrix of the arts, is, if not exactly a high priestess, a pretty high-up vestal virgin.1994 August 7, “Gerald Kaufman deplores those who will sink to anything to make great art more ‘accessible’”, in The Sunday Telegraph…. From the entry commentatrix
  • That Enkidu enters the city of Uruk wearing the garment of a priestess and that his adoption by Ninsun is linked to that of the hierodulic priestesses corroborates this interpretation.1993, Randy P. Conner, Blossom of bone: reclaiming the connection between homoeroticism and the sacred. From the entry hierodulic
  • With the priestesses of goddesses the considerations which tend to lay upon the wife-priestesses of a god the tabu of chastity have no application, and their hierodulic character is retained.1927, Robert Briffault, The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions. From the entry hierodulic

Meaning of priestess

  1. noun A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
  2. noun A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.
  3. noun A priest’s wife.

Full definition of priestess

Questions about priestess in a sentence

How do you use priestess in a sentence?
Priestess is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me.”
What is a short sentence with priestess?
“I priestessed the ceremony.”
What does priestess mean?
Priestess means a woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

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