deaconess.
A non-clerical role for women in some churches.
Meaning & usage
A non-clerical role for women in some churches.
A female deacon.
A female servant in the early Christian church.
The nun in charge of the altar in a convent.
One of an order of women in some Protestant churches who nurse the sick and tend the poor.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English dekenesse; equivalent to deacon + -ess.
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