pythoness

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Against this doom Genevi�ve Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record.

From Time Magazine Archive

To natural madness, to poetry and the other gifts allied to it, to prophecy like that of the Delphic pythoness, he has to add, fourthly, the "enthusiasm of the ideas."

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter

The pythoness, or priestess of Apollo, at his approach, hailed him as king of Corinth.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Thereafter, Storri was no sooner in the Harley house when, presto! from over the way our pythoness sweeps in.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Some submit to it painfully, striving against it just like the ancient pythoness at the time of giving her oracle.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen