Definitions for pythoness

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pythoness py·tho·ness

Spelling: [pahy-thuh-nis, pith-uh-]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ θə nɪs, ˈpɪθ ə-/

Pythoness is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in pythoness (ehnopssty).

Definitions for pythoness

noun

1. a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
2. a woman who practices divination.

Origin of pythoness

1325-75; python² + -ess; replacing Middle English phytonesse Middle French

Examples for pythoness

It was a pythoness from Syria that advised Marius on the sacrifices he was to perform.

Similarly the pythoness: the behaviour of the possessed is everywhere the same.

But the pythoness was not wholly tamed, and she could not even yet forget her wrongs.

Lynette said, without removing her fascinated eyes from the pythoness.

Her attitudes, it was once said, were those of "a pythoness cast in bronze."

But she was a pythoness, and did not at all come up to our idea of a witch.

"Oh, a horrid, stuck-up set of people," said this pythoness.

The Pithoness or pythoness, which usually appears in the M.E. writers as in the text.

Will it be said that there was any collusion between St. Paul and the pythoness?

I am sorry for this his incurable passion to play the pythoness.