Crossword-Solution: PYTHONESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pythoness | n. | The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece. |
| Pythoness | n. | Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PYTHONESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PYTHIAN priestess | 1 answer |
| woman, such as Apollo's priestess at Delphi, believed to be possessed by an oracular spirit | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IDENVI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PYTHONESS (5)
The Countess stood in the midst of her apartment like a juvenile Pythoness under the influence of the prophetic fury.
The peasant-woman’s face was terrible; her piercing black eyes had the glare of the tiger’s; her face was like that we ascribe to a pythoness; she set her teeth to keep them from chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively.
Like most women when under the stress of some unusual agitation, she overstepped her ordinary limitations and assumed something of the Pythoness, though still remaining calm and beautiful; for it was the form of her thoughts that was wrung with desperation, not the features of her face.
The Pythoness: the witch, or woman, possesed with a prophesying spirit; from the Greek, “Pythia.” Chaucer of course refers to the raising of Samuel’s spirit by the witch of Endor.
What also if there is an AFFLATED style,--when a writer is like a Pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, and bellowing, and whistling, and moaning through the speaking pipes of his bodily organ? I have told you it was a very queer shock to me the other day when, with a letter of introduction in his hand, the artist's (not my) Philip Firmin walked into this room, and sat down in the chair opposite.