Definition of Eldress

1. a female elder (a church officer) [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eldress

elderweds
elderwort
eldest
eldest hand
eldfather
eldfathers
eldin
elding
eldings
eldins
eldmother
eldmothers
eldning
eldorado
eldren
eldress (current term)
eldresses
eldrich
eldritch
eldritchly
elds
elecampane
elecampanes
elect
elect(ip)
electabilities
electability
electable
electant
electants

Literary usage of Eldress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakers of Ohio: Fugitive Papers Concerning the Shakers of Ohio, with by John Patterson MacLean (1907)
"The whole year is embraced in 16 lines. The year 1874 is comprised in less than a page. From it we learn that eldress Matilda Williams passed away January ..."

2. A Bibliography of Shaker Literature: With an Introductory Study of the by John Patterson MacLean (1905)
"I am particularly under obligations to eldress ... Dr. William Pennybaker and Nancy Rupe, of Pleasant Hill ; eldress Jane Cowan and Elder John Ferryman, ..."

3. The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art, and Literature edited by J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish (1893)
"eldress Eleanor was horrified at this rash, unseemly behavior of the first ... Turning to eldress Eleanor, not without a smile of triumph upon his face, ..."

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