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Soothsayer vs Pythoness - What's the difference?

soothsayer | pythoness |

As nouns the difference between soothsayer and pythoness

is that soothsayer is (obsolete) one who tells the truth; a truthful person while pythoness is (history) the priestess of the oracle of apollo at delphi.

soothsayer

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
  • One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
  • A mantis or rearhorse.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * prognosticator * seer * prophet

    pythoness

    English

    Etymology 1

    See Pythoness.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (Pythoness)
  • A female soothsayer

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • A female python.
  • * 1862 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art , Volume 56,
    • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.