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dictatrix

noun

Etymology

From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate + -trix.

  1. borrowed from dictātrīx

Definitions

  1. A female dictator.

    • Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.
    • Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune.
    • There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville. They run wherever she leads them.

  2. A dictatorial entity personified as female

    A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates.

    • the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy

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