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dictatrices

dictatrices is the plural of dictatrix.

Meaning of dictatrix

Noun

dictatrix (plural dictatrices)

  1. A female dictator.
    • Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 3, in The Caxtons, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 70
    Synonyms:
    dictatress
  2. (archaic) A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates.
    • the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy1648, Jeremy Taylor, Treatises […] together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, dedicatory epistle, page 42
    Synonyms:
    dictatress

Questions about dictatrices

What is dictatrices the plural of?
Dictatrices is the plural of dictatrix.

Words near dictatrices in the dictionary

  1. dictatours
  2. dictatourship
  3. dictatourships
  4. dictatress
  5. dictatresses
  6. dictatrices
  7. dictatrix
  8. dictature
  9. dictatures
  10. dictier
  11. dicties

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