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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
Pronunciation
Noun
deess (plural deesses)
- (obsolete) A goddess.
1685, Herbert Croft (bishop), (Please provide the book title or journal name):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.
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