tyrantess
English
Alternative forms
- tyranness (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tiraunessis pl; equivalent to tyrant + -ess.
Noun
tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)
- A female tyrant.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]
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