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dictatoress

dictatoress is the alternative form of dictatress.

Meaning of dictatress

Noun

dictatress (plural dictatresses)

  1. A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.
    • […] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.1601, William Fulbecke, An Historicall Collection of the Continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians, London: William Ponsonby, Book 1, Page 86
    Synonyms:
    dictatrix

Forms of dictatoress

pluraldictatoresses

Origin of dictatoress

From dictator + -ess.

Questions about dictatoress

What is dictatoress the alternative form of?
Dictatoress is the alternative form of dictatress.

Words near dictatoress in the dictionary

  1. dictation machines
  2. dictational
  3. dictations
  4. dictative
  5. dictator
  6. dictatoress
  7. dictatoresses
  8. dictatorial
  9. dictatorialism
  10. dictatoriality
  11. dictatorially

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