afflictress
afflictress noun: a female afflicter.
Noun
afflictress (plural afflictresses)
- A female afflicter.
- Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention.1886, James Hain Friswell, The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character
- Sisinnios was also a Christian name from the end of the first century onwards, frequent for martyrs of the 4th cent., especially under Diocletian, to whose period was attributed St. Sisinnios of Antioch, the magical opponent of the demonic afflictress of childbirth.1998, Bulletin of the Asia Institute - Volume 10, page 255
Forms of afflictress
| plural | afflictresses |
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Origin of afflictress
From afflicter + -ess.
Questions about afflictress
- What does afflictress mean?
- Afflictress means a female afflicter.
- What part of speech is afflictress?
- Afflictress is a noun.
- What is the plural of afflictress?
- The plural of afflictress is afflictresses.
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