priestess
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of priestess
Example Sentences
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He was working in the grove, on the Iledi Ontooto shrine roof, when Susanne Wenger, the Austrian-Nigerian artist and Yoruba priestess, said to him: "It is wood carving you'll be doing."
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
Warren Buffett once called him a Cassandra—the mythological Trojan priestess whose grim prophecies were ignored.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Researching Annie, I had to look back at where I’m from, because she’s a hoodoo priestess and hoodoo is a derivative of Ifa, and Ifa is the traditional Yoruba religion.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
The ghost tours in New Orleans are borderline legendary, with popular offerings focusing on the supernatural, New Orleans’ “Casket Girls,” and on the origins of Marie Laveau’s rise to notoriety as a voodoo priestess.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025
Apollo on his side, facing this undaunted person, felt an admiration for his boldness and made his priestess deliver the response.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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