deess

See also: de-ess

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪˈ(j)ɛs/

Noun

deess (plural deesses)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Seeds, essed, sedes, seeds