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English
Etymology
From prelate + -ess.
Noun
prelatess (plural prelatesses)
- (archaic) A female prelate.
- (archaic) The wife of a prelate.
1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:rheumatic old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity
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