Definition of "pastoress" []

• A female pastor (person who tends to a flock) (noun)
• A female pastor (minister or priest of a Christian church) (noun)

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• "Boston was a goodly town of only twelve thousand inhabitants, governed with strict Puritan laws, some of which were even oppressive, giving small opportunity to indulge in the frivolities of life, even if one desired, and least of all to a pastoress of the Old South Church."