Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wife of a dean.
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- noun a female
dean (head of a university faculty)
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Examples
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket - holes — was ill all the night.
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket-holes — was ill all the night.
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Fancy little Miss Butterfly a rural deaness! the notion's too ridiculous.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Quedlingberg, the prioress, the deaness, and sub-chantress, for sending at noon-day for the trumpeter’s wife: she went through the streets of Strasburg with her husband’s trumpet in her hand, — the best apparatus the straitness of the time would allow her, for the illustration of her theory — she staid no longer than three days.
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Quedlingberg, the prioress, the deaness, and sub-chantress, for sending at noon-day for the trumpeter’s wife: she went through the streets of Strasburg with her husband’s trumpet in her hand, — the best apparatus the straitness of the time would allow her, for the illustration of her theory — she staid no longer than three days.
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