Etymology

saintess

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Today it means: A female saint. Full definition →

Middle English seintesse
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromseintesse
  2. English todaysaintess

From Middle English seintesse. By surface analysis, saint + -ess.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.