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nounprelatess (plural prelatesses)
plural prelatesses
- archaicThe wife of a prelate.
rheumatic old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity
1642 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
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prelatess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prelatess
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