Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
empress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
empress .
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- noun Obsolete form of
empress .
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Examples
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The emperess showed some kindness in her anger by cutting him off at a time so convenient for his reputation.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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Olympiodorus, in Photius's Extracts, tells us of one Libanius, who practised this kind of military magick, and having promised [Greek: choris hopliton kata barbaron energein], _to perform great things against the barbarians without soldiers_, was, at the instances of the emperess Placidia, put to death, when he was about to have given proofs of his abilities.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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One for bathing, one for games and recreation, one for the emperess and her ladies and one for meditation.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Do we recognize a naked (and ignorant) emperess or not.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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The Republicans have gotten far in squelching conversation about whether the emperess had any credible clothes.
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