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electress

noun
/ɪˈlɛktɹɪs/

Etymology

From elector + -ess.

  1. derived from *leǵ-✻ — “to collect, gather”
  2. derived from *legō✻ — “to gather, collect”
  3. derived from ēligere — “to elect”
  4. derived from ēlēctor — “chooser, selector; voter, elector”
  5. inherited from electour — “one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”
  6. suffixed as electress — “elector + ess”

Definitions

  1. A woman who can vote in an election.

    • I often wish I were, not a butterfly nor a bird—nothing so ridiculous—but an Electress!
    • Free and independent electresses might object to be set in the forefront of the battle to shield their husbands and brothers from consabulary buckshot.
    • To be an electress is the greatest honour imaginable; and to be the husband of an electress—why, it doubles a man's income at once.

  2. The wife of a German elector, often used as a title.

    • Nothing could equal the astonishment of both, on hearing the door open without their command, and seeing the electress enter, who was the person in the world they least expected, and to the duchess, perhaps, the least welcome.
    • The Electress Magdalena Sybilla was a woman of character, virtuous, kind, conventional and managing.
    • In July 1697 Electress Sophie had given an informal party for Peter which was attended only by her immediate family and the electresses of Brunswick and Hanover.

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