denunciatrix

denunciatrix noun: a female denunciator.

Noun

denunciatrix (plural not attested)

(no plural) A female denunciator.
- This Magiſtrate was ſo far gained by Mrs. Hamilton, as to admit her as Instigatrix, Plaintiff, Denunciatrix, and Witness.1782, A Narrative of Circumstances Attending Mr. Beresford’s Marriage with Miss Hamilton, London, page 21
- The fierce denunciatrix of Woman’s Wrongs could see no wrong in her invalid sister getting supper for her, while she herself sat in idleness.1862 February, J. L. M’Creery, “The Guardian Angel”, in T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, Virginia F[rances] Townsend, editors, Arthur’s Home Magazine, volume XIX, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. S. Arthur & Co....

She was living, more vividly and intensely than any passage of daily life, her mystic role of Denunciatrix.1940, Margery Sharp, The Stone of Chastity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Publications, Inc., published 1955, page 76:
The denunciator (more particularly the denunciatrix) dislikes publicity.1987, Richard Cobb, translated by Marianne Elliott, The People’s Armies: The Armées Révolutionnaires: Instrument of the Terror in the...
When Kaganovich informed Stalin of this ‘heroic denunciatrix’, he immediately grasped her usefulness.2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 184:

What does denunciatrix mean?: Denunciatrix means a female denunciator.
How do you use denunciatrix in a sentence?: She was living, more vividly and intensely than any passage of daily life, her mystic role of Denunciatrix.
What part of speech is denunciatrix?: Denunciatrix is a noun.

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