dictatrix
dictatrix noun: a female dictator.
Noun
dictatrix (plural dictatrices)
- 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
- Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune.1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 32, in My Wife and I, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 340
- Synonyms:
- dictatress
- 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
- […] how can you […] plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes?1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240
- Synonyms:
- dictatress
Examples of dictatrix in a sentence
- There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville.1937, Caroline Gordon, chapter 11, in The Garden of Adonis, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, published 1971, page 131:
- My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end.2011, Joanna Lumley, Absolutely,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 141:
Synonyms of dictatrix
Forms of dictatrix
| plural | dictatrices |
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Origin of dictatrix
From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate + -trix.
Questions about dictatrix
- What does dictatrix mean?
- Dictatrix means a female dictator.
- How do you use dictatrix in a sentence?
- There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville.
- What part of speech is dictatrix?
- Dictatrix is a noun.
- What is the plural of dictatrix?
- The plural of dictatrix is dictatrices.
Words near dictatrix in the dictionary
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