deess

See also: de-ess

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /deɪˈ(j)ɛs/

Noun

deess (plural deesses)

  1. (obsolete) A goddess.
    • 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop)
      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.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXV, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 256 footnote:
      The Hindus "take the bull by the horns" and boldly make "sítlá" (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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