different between chieftess vs chiefess
chieftess
English
Noun
chieftess (plural chieftesses)
- A female chief or chieftain; the female leader of a tribe or clan.
- "This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendents ..." New travels among the Indians of North America, William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. [1]
- Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)
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chiefess
English
Etymology
From chief +? -ess.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t?i??f?s/
Noun
chiefess (plural chiefesses)
- (Hawaii) A female chief or the wife of a chief.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, p. 7:
- Although Lili‘u was born a high chiefess, with lineage that reached back to the high chiefs under Kamehameha the Great, at the time of her birth it would never have seemed possible that she would someday become queen.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, p. 7:
Synonyms
- chieftainess
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