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Definition of Seeresses
1. seeress [n] - See also: seeress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seeresses
Literary usage of Seeresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"London is full of seeresses ; in Bond Street, not under black volcanic ...
But often, at dinner, ladies talk to me about wonderful Bond Street seeresses, ..."
2. God in History: Or, The Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1868)
"The Seers and Seeresses of the ... It is demonstrable, too, that the Sibyls or
seeresses also date from very remote times. ..."
3. Annals of the New Church: With a Chronological Account of the Life of by Carl Theophilus Odhner (1904)
"Mr. Werner at last tired of these vagaries, and endeavored to remove one of the "
seeresses" from his house, and finally appealed to the police. ..."
4. Talks with the Dead: Luminous Rays from the Unseen World, Illustrated with by John Lobb (1907)
"SEERS AND Seeresses BY A SPIRIT THE gifts of the spirit are various. ... And yet
seers and seeresses, clairvoyant and clairaudient persons, ..."
5. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"Most of those accused at Salem were charged by the seeresses with consulting and
plotting mischief with yellow birds, which would sit on their shoulder or ..."
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