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pythoness

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ehnopsstyStarts with PEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a witch with powers of divination

Word origin

From python + -ess.

Used in a sentence

  • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.
  • Less becomingly Origen states that when the Pythoness sat down at the mouth of the cave, "the prophetic spirit of Apollo entered her private parts"; ...
  • But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia.

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