corruptress

Now, Jack, what terms wouldst thou have me to keep with such a sweet corruptress?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Cursed, cursed toad, devil, jade, passed from each mouth: — and the vileness of the corrupted, and the unworthiness of the corruptress, were inveighed against.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But take care not to be tempted by that wonderful female Proteus, Lady Meed, the great corruptress.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Now, Jack, what terms wouldst thou have me to keep with such a sweet corruptress?

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725

-- Cursed, cursed toad, devil, jade, passed from each mouth: -- and the vileness of the corrupted, and the unworthiness of the corruptress, were inveighed against.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725

Assembly,182 as it was named; but holding informal meetings among themselves — a few senators here and a few there — they determined to send Cinadon and others of the young men to Aulon, with instructions to apprehend certain of the inhabitants and helots, whose names were written on the scytale (or scroll) .183 He had further instructions to capture another resident in Aulon; this was a woman, the fashionable beauty of the place — supposed to be the arch-corruptress of all Lacedaemonians, young and old, who visited Aulon.

Hellenica 2007

"But always keeping in mind that the aim of a just sovereign is the advantage and safety of his subjects, I have been always, as you know, inclined to peace, eradicating all licentiousness -- that great corruptress of things and manners -- by every part of my own conduct; and

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851