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prelatess

noun — 2 senses

prelatess

noun

Etymology From prelate + -ess.

1

Archaic A female prelate.

2

Archaic The wife of a prelate.

  • rheumatic old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

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