# necromancess
## English
### Etymology

From necromanc(er) +‎ -ess.

### Noun

necromancess (plural necromancesses)
* (rare) A female necromancer.
    Synonym: necromanceress
** 1891 December 31, “Personal Paragraphs”, in Arkansas City Traveler, volume 5, number 181 (whole 2061), Arkansas City, Kan., page [5]:An exchange pronounces Anna Eva Fay, the necromancess, a “Fay-ke.”
** 1983 December, Practical Computing, page 129:As the points double successively Polly becomes the Superheroine, followed by Enchantress, Sorceress, Necromancess, Legend and finally, at 76,800 points, Witch.
** 1984 July, Robert Schifreen, “M.U.D.”, in Computer and Video Games, page 145, column 1:As you collect more points, so your character will change. You start off as a novice and progress through characters such as wizard and necromancer. Of course, if you’re a female character then you’ll be a witch or a necromancess.
** 1985 November, Sinclair User, number 44, page 63:Part of a logged game of MUD […] ★who / Maria the sorceress is playing / Pathos the champion is playing / Fanman the enchanter is playing / Mugsanon the witch is playing / Tana the legend is playing / Aphrodite the warrior is playing / Jethro is playing / Grobble the legend is playing / Kalamzoo the superhero is playing / Rebecca the necromancess is playing / Stev is playing
** 1988 February, Commodore User, page 93:Just as in the real thing, when one enters your location, you get a message like: CLAIRE THE NECROMANCESS HAS JUST ARRIVED.
** 1994, Bridget Wood, Sorceress, Headline Feature, →ISBN, pages 246, 449, 462, and 488:The lair of the Crimson Lady, the Beast of Almhuin who scoured the Mountains of the Dark Ireland for prey to drain of their blood, so that she might bathe her white limbs and slake her terrible thirst . . . The necromancess who had once been Chaos’s paramour, but who now seemed to be his enemy. […] Rumour thought if she had had with her the entire House of Amaranth, they might have managed it. The slaying of the necromancess . . . Yes, together, their several strengths combined, they would surely have been victorious. […] As Guardian to the Crimson Lady, the BeastWoman, Almhuin’s necromancess . . . […] Several of the necromancesses had forced the Dark Lords to the floor, and had leapt to straddle them, forcing the monstrous organs between their thighs, moaning and panting.
** 2004 October, Edge, number 141, page 114:Gottle the necromancess is here, carrying nothing
** 2006, Mindy MacLeod, Bernard Mees, “Introuction”, in Runic Amulets and Magic Objects, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 5:It is certain that the use of the word rune as ‘secret’ or ‘knowledge’ had come to be associated with magic at an early period, though. The ancient Goths, for instance, used an expression haliurunnae, literally meaning ‘Hell-runer’ to refer to sorceresses, and in Old English the etymologically identical compound hellerˆne translates ‘pythoness’ (i.e. seeress or witch). Old High German even had the equivalent compounds hellirûna (literally ‘Hell-runes’) for ‘necromancy’, hellirûnâri for ‘necromancer’ and tôtrûna (literally ‘death-runer’) for the feminine ‘necromancess’.
** 2012, M. R. Lang, Illiterate Sophism, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN:"She's not in here. She's just the one that got me mixed up in all of this. I think she's a witch. Well, she has skeletons, so maybe she's a necromancer. Necromancess?"
** 2014, Shirley Li, Quickies With A Bite, →ISBN, back cover:Four short stories to tickle your erotic fancy with tales varying from a necromancess looking for energy, a woman going through a transformation, a near death survivor on the run, and a sizzling case of deja vu.