Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female dictator; a woman who commands arbitrarily and irresponsibly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who dictates or commands.
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- noun A
female dictator .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is conscious of the tension between America's battered interventionism and John Quincy Adams's warning "not to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy, nor become the dictatress of the world."
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“She might become the dictatress of the world,” Adams concluded, but “she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”
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“She might become the dictatress of the world,” Adams concluded, but “she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”
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She has taken it into her head, I fear, that I am here as a restraint upon her; a sort of lady spy, a duenna, a dictatress, all combined in one, and all unpleasant.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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She might become the dictatress of the world: she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.
Eyeless in Iraq Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 2003
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She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.
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I was flattered with this confidence of the dictatress of the
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She has taken it into her head, I fear, that I am here as a restraint upon her; a sort of lady spy, a duenna, a dictatress, all combined in one, and all unpleasant.
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Juan ready by autumn, or a little later, as I obtained a permission from my dictatress to continue it, -- _provided always_ it was to be more guarded and decorous and sentimental in the continuation than in the commencement.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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I was flattered with this confidence of the dictatress of the
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
bradleyrturner commented on the word dictatress
Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen. - Byron.
May 27, 2012