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Jew⋅ess

  [joo-is]
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–noun Usually Offensive.
a Jewish girl or woman.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME jewesse. See Jew, -ess

Usage note:
See -ess.
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Jew·ess   (jōō'ĭs)   
n.   Offensive
A Jewish woman or girl.
Usage Note: Like many other English nouns in which the suffix -ess is added to a gender-neutral word to indicate femaleness, the terms Jewess and Negress are now widely regarded as offensive. It is interesting to note that the objection to words formed with the -ess suffix does not apply to words such as Latina and Chicana, whose contrasting forms Latino and Chicano are not gender-neutral but rather refer even in English primarily to males. See Usage Notes at -ess, Latina1.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Bible Dictionary

Jewess

a woman of Hebrew birth, as Eunice, the mother of Timothy (Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5), and Drusilla (Acts 24:24), wife of Felix, and daughter of Herod Agrippa I.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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