womanslayer
womanslayer noun: one who kills a woman.
Noun
womanslayer (plural womanslayers)
- One who kills a woman.
- “[…] Fanis slew his own sister for possession of the Shunstone, remember? I warrant his heirlings will be as jealous of the Stone as their ancestor was.” / “Then let’s meet this latter-day womanslayer and be done with it.”1984, Carole Nelson Douglas, chapter 24, in Exiles of the Rynth, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 246
- ‘What do you know about the Beast?’ asked the baron. / ‘Seven,’ Harald said, imagining them laid out in a row. ‘Seven so far.’ / ‘And there will be more.’ / ‘Yes. He can’t stop. A womanslayer is the worst kind of criminal there is!’1993, Kim Newman writing as Jack Yeovil, chapter III, in Beasts in Velvet (Warhammer), Nottingham, Notts.: The Black Library, published 2002, →ISBN, page 99
Forms of womanslayer
| plural | womanslayers |
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Origin of womanslayer
From woman + slayer, after manslayer.
Questions about womanslayer
- What does womanslayer mean?
- Womanslayer means one who kills a woman.
- What part of speech is womanslayer?
- Womanslayer is a noun.
- What is the plural of womanslayer?
- The plural of womanslayer is womanslayers.
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