usurpress
usurpress noun: a female usurper.
Noun
usurpress (plural usurpresses)
- A female usurper.
- This yet may dash the Marriage; and Leucasia That bold Usurpress of my Bed shall miss Of being saluted Queen to night howe'r.17C, William Cartwright, reproduced in 1951 in The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright, p421
- Madame Le Crampon was the absolute ruler of this machine;--her mother had ceased to hold almost any relation to it! She had abdicated in favour of that hard and implacable usurpress.1863, Emma Robinson, Mauleverer's divorce: A Story of Woman's Wrongs, page 59
- Synonyms:
- usurpatrix
Examples of usurpress in a sentence
- Sophia, who was anxious not to be reckoned a usurpress and who wished to keep up appearances, held two thrones and two crowns on behalf of Ivan and Peter.1963, Victor Alexandrov, The Kremlin: Nerve-centre of Russian History, page 147:
- Finally, Russian was the rule with my father, sister, and the usurpress, and I was literally at home in it.2001, Paul Steinberg, Speak You Also: A survivor's Reckoning, page 40:
Synonyms of usurpress
Forms of usurpress
| plural | usurpresses |
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Origin of usurpress
From usurper + -ess.
Questions about usurpress
- What does usurpress mean?
- Usurpress means a female usurper.
- How do you use usurpress in a sentence?
- Sophia, who was anxious not to be reckoned a usurpress and who wished to keep up appearances, held two thrones and two crowns on behalf of Ivan and Peter.
- What part of speech is usurpress?
- Usurpress is a noun.
- What is the plural of usurpress?
- The plural of usurpress is usurpresses.
Words near usurpress in the dictionary
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