seeress

[ seer-is ]

/ ˈsɪər ɪs /

a woman who prophesies future events.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1835–45; seer¹ + -ess

See -ess.

She refrained from adding that she did not intend to make use of the seeress's gift for her own benefit.
The Second Latchkey|Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
"Tell me something of the past," said Phil, with a view of testing the knowledge of the seeress.
The Errand Boy|Horatio Alger
The seeress takes off her dress and pronounces a curse upon Death.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898|Various
Or had she been a seeress to foresee the future of that child of sorrow!
Ishmael|Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

So Ulric stooped low and studied well the deeply graven furrows which the saga woman, the seeress, had drawn upon the sand.
Ulric the Jarl|William O. Stoddard