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priestesshood

n. priesthood as it relates to priestesses, i.e. the female kind.

Usage examples of "priestesshood".

Within weeks they numbered more than two hundred, the most powerful organized force on the planet outside the priestesshood, but it was almost immediately clear why no action had yet been taken against them.

Not the Abyss-the drow's first choice for power and allies-for much about her work had to be kept secret from the priestesshood of Lloth, and Abyssal denizens were notorious for treachery.

With unfamiliar candor she admitted her fears about the dangers that her reluctant priestesshood held for her, and also for him.

Not the Abyss-the drow’s first choice for power and allies-for much about her work had to be kept secret from the priestesshood of Lloth, and Abyssal denizens were notorious for treachery.

Priestess Poogli tried to get the others of the Priestesshood to save them, not just the star-beams, but they went with the outside workers during the Cannibal Wars, until now all that remains are the Priestesses and half-starved male servants"

It seems unlikely that she would risk her aspirations toward high priestesshood for the sake of a mere child, a mere male child.