high priestess

[ hahy-pree-stis ]

/ ˈhaɪ ˈpri stɪs /

the female leader of a tribe, religion, or movement; a female high priest.

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Also high-priest·ess [hahy-pree-stis]. /ˈhaɪˈpri stɪs/.

First recorded in 1640–50

She received him with an air of mystic calm, gracious and dignified as the high-priestess of a Grecian temple.
King--of the Khyber Rifles|Talbot Mundy
At length, it seemed, it reached the turn of the high-priestess.
The Dynamiter|Robert Louis Stevenson
Why, this is the temple of superstition, and you are the high-Priestess.
Put Yourself in His Place|Charles Reade
Generally these were women, as at Ephesos in early days, where they obeyed a high-priestess, who called herself 'the queen-bee.'
The Hittites|A. H. Sayce

And this girl was surely the high-priestess of it all, the chief instrument of its accomplishment.
Three John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood