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Christianess
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English
Etymology
From en Christian ess<id:female>.
Noun
en rare a female Christian
a. 1912, Ambrose Bierce, "The Jew", Tangential Views, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 9, page X2lKAAAAYAAJ 373 Christianesses:
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.
en 3-syllable words