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dictatress

noun

Etymology

From dictator + -ess.

  1. borrowed from dictātor — “a chief magistrate”
  2. suffixed as dictatress — “dictator + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female dictator

    A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.

    • […] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.
    • What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA