captivatress
captivatress noun: a female captivator.
Noun
captivatress (plural captivatresses)
- A female captivator.
- According to the deſcription Famminée (ſo was the Nurſe called) has given me, this concealed captivatreſs muſt be lodged near the ſubterraneous cell.1795, Ann Yearsley, The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an Old Manuscript, […], volume III, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], page 223
- Every hour now stolen from the avocations of his duty, Sedly spent with his witching captivatress, from whom he learned, that she was the disobedient, disinherited, though only daughter of his benefactor, his patron, lord Donaldson!1810, “The Nephew and Aunt”, in The Soldier of Pennaflor: or, A Season in Ireland. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century., volume IV, Cork: […] John Connor, […], page 132
- Synonyms:
- captivatrix
Examples of captivatress in a sentence
- BIJOU / BLANCHE RING / The Magnetic Captivatress / In / “The Yankee Girl” / A Comedy Drama of a Copper Feud in the Tropics1915 December 14, The Democrat-News, volume 1, number 167, Lewistown, Mont., page three:
- Meadowcreek W S Queen Captivatress 2298571 (V.G.) (Springbank Captivator Re-Echo)1945 April 7, “Advanced Registry Report No. 13”, in Holstein-Friesian World, volume 42, number 7, Lacona, N.Y.: Holstein-Friesian World...
- It was natural that Lipiner, a poet so passionately devoted to life, should again and again be taken captive by love.’ One such captivatress was Natalie Bauer-Lechner.2017, Stephen E. Hefling, “Justine Mahler’s Faust Notebook: An Introduction”, in Jeremy Barham, editor, Rethinking Mahler, New York, N.Y....
Synonyms of captivatress
Forms of captivatress
| plural | captivatresses |
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Origin of captivatress
From captivator + -ess.
Questions about captivatress
- What does captivatress mean?
- Captivatress means a female captivator.
- How do you use captivatress in a sentence?
- BIJOU / BLANCHE RING / The Magnetic Captivatress / In / “The Yankee Girl” / A Comedy Drama of a Copper Feud in the Tropics
- What part of speech is captivatress?
- Captivatress is a noun.
- What is the plural of captivatress?
- The plural of captivatress is captivatresses.
Words near captivatress in the dictionary
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