Meanings
plural deesses
- obsoleteA goddess.
The Hindus "take the bull by the horns" and boldly make "sítlá" (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction.
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXV, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 256 footnote1 more example
He does so much magnifie Nature and her actings in all this material world, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joint deess with God in the affairs thereof.
1685, Herbert Croft (bishop), (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Origin
- Frenchdéesse
- Englishdeess
Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
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