Christianess

English

Etymology

Christian + -ess

Noun

Christianess (plural Christianesses)

  1. (rare) a female Christian
    • a. 1912, Ambrose Bierce, "The Jew", Tangential Views, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 9, page 373:
      A NOTED Jewish rabbi has been uttering his mind concerning "manufacturers of mixed marriages" — clergymen, that is to say, who marry Christians to Jewesses and Jews to Christianesses.
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