Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female traitor; a traitress.

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

  • noun obsolete A traitress.

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  • noun obsolete A female traitor.

Etymologies

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traitor +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • To suspect the wife upon whom he doated with romantic fondness, on whom he had centered all his firmest hopes of happiness, and for whose sake he had committed the crime which embittered even his present moment, and which would involve him in still deeper guilt — to find her ungrateful to his love, and a traitoress to his honor — produced a misery more poignant than any his imagination had conceived.

    A Sicilian Romance 2004

  • So easy to let Raihna the traitoress perish, and live on, satisfying Illyana's desire and his every night and sometimes every day.

    Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988

  • Was that indeed Yelaya, as the cold sweat on the backs of his hands told him, or was it that little hussy Muriela, turned traitoress after all?

    Conan The Warrior Howard, Robert E. 1973

  • "So let the Duchess Claramonde be taken be - yond the city walls and there let her be burnt after the manner of a traitoress and let all those from Bordeaux who lie within our ward be hung at that same time!"'

    Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951

  • Instead of marrying the traitoress, he handed her over to an executioner, to receive the death that she had deserved, though scarcely at his hands.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

  • "The traitoress has the infamy to smile at me -- whom she has betrayed," was the thought in his heart.

    The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • Despite the vow she had sworn within herself, to be ever pure in her love for Henri, and never yield to him, she felt great discomfort at the thought that she was a traitoress to the confiding, happy woman who sat by her side.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • Hers -- the faithless traitoress, from whom he had looked for peace and joy, who had declared that she felt herself bound to him, the trickster in whom he had believed he saw Roxana -- But she was no more.

    A Thorny Path — Volume 12 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Hers -- the faithless traitoress, from whom he had looked for peace and joy, who had declared that she felt herself bound to him, the trickster in whom he had believed he saw Roxana -- But she was no more.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Hers -- the faithless traitoress, from whom he had looked for peace and joy, who had declared that she felt herself bound to him, the trickster in whom he had believed he saw Roxana -- But she was no more.

    A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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