Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female offender.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A woman who offends.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A woman who offends.

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Examples

  • He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature.

    All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

  • He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself, and should be buried in highways, out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature.

    Act I. Scene I. All’s Well that Ends Well 1914

  • He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature.

    All's Well That Ends Well 1601

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