deess
See also: de-ess
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /deɪˈ(j)ɛs/
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.
References
- “deess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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