Usually means: Female elder in some churches.
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  5. Presbyteress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. presbyteress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Presbyteress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. presbyteress: FreeDictionary.org
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noun:  (historical) A presbyter or priest's wife.
noun:  (obsolete) A female presbyter (elder of the congregation in early Christianity).

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