Mormoness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Mormon +‎ -ess

Noun[edit]

Mormoness (plural Mormonesses)

  1. (dated, rare) A female Mormon.
    • 1871, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent:
      Zilpha, being just Hiram's age, as was woman's right, blossomed first, and became a demure, marriageable little Mormoness in long dresses (or, as a perverse Gentile friend used to call Mormon little girls, a "Mormoniculess," Mormon little boys being similarly "Mormonicles")," while Hiram was blushing at the shortness of a roundabout, which he felt still more ashamed to exchange for that uneasily self-conscious garment, a coat with tails.

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