Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female who exacts or is strict in her requirements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A woman who is an exactor.
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- noun A female
exactor .
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Examples
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Isaiah (14: 4) the "golden city" (R.V. marg., "exactress," adopting the reading marhebah, instead of the usual word madhebah).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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The mystical Babylon is ultimately meant. golden city -- rather, "the exactress of gold" [Maurer].
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How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the exactress of gold ceased!
The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867
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She is gold-thirsty, or an exactress of gold (so some read it); for how do men get wealth to themselves but by squeezing it out of others?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city, (or the exactress of gold) ceased!
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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Beena Antony is a malayalam actress who started their career as an exactress.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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