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Recent Examples of priestess
Legend has it that Apollo prevented his muse priestess from brewing, imbibing or smoking laurel leaves, which have a mild narcotic property.
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Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Ancient priestesses made their bodies a conduit for collective transcendence and, now that the old gods have abandoned us, we secular souls tend to find our collective transcendence at concerts.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
September 21, 2024 Vivianne Crowley is a Wiccan priestess, psychologist, and spiritual teacher, whose books offer practical advice on how to harness the energies of the natural world.
—Vivianne Crowley, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2024
Plus, Jodie Turner-Smith is positively entrancing as a voodoo priestess whose ancient curses might flip this entire story on its head.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 13 Aug. 2024
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Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Ancient priestesses made their bodies a conduit for collective transcendence and, now that the old gods have abandoned us, we secular souls tend to find our collective transcendence at concerts.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
September 21, 2024 Vivianne Crowley is a Wiccan priestess, psychologist, and spiritual teacher, whose books offer practical advice on how to harness the energies of the natural world.
—Vivianne Crowley, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2024
Plus, Jodie Turner-Smith is positively entrancing as a voodoo priestess whose ancient curses might flip this entire story on its head.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for priestess
Noun
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To deliver the ransom, her royal labrys, the titular princess has just 24 hours to reach the Straight White Maliens and hand over the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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The portraits of Kate come one month after the princess announced that her cancer is in remission.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Juno – From Roman mythology, the goddess of protection and family.—
Fiona Tapp,
Parents,
6 Feb. 2025
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For instance, the body of the goddess Iris is now in London, while her head is in Athens.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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Another influential woman in Mukherjee’s life is Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman’s chic, silver-haired senior vice president of fashion—and the retail high priestess responsible for Sabyasachi’s Big Apple debut.—
Naomi Rougeau,
Robb Report,
17 Feb. 2025
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The high priestess of Paris fashion, Michèle Lamy, chatted with other attendees near a haunting image of a young boy diving head-first into an unknown plane.—
Isiah Magsino,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Priestess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priestess. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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