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torturess

torturess noun: a female torturer.

Noun

torturess (plural torturesses)

  1. A female torturer.
    • […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari
    • Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal

Forms of torturess

pluraltorturesses

Origin of torturess

From torturer + -ess.

Questions about torturess

What does torturess mean?
Torturess means a female torturer.
What part of speech is torturess?
Torturess is a noun.
What is the plural of torturess?
The plural of torturess is torturesses.

Words near torturess in the dictionary

  1. tortureproof
  2. torturer
  3. torturers
  4. tortures
  5. torturesome
  6. torturess
  7. torturesses
  8. torturest
  9. tortureth
  10. torturing
  11. torturingly

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