Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A victress. Charlotte Brontë, Villette, xxxii.

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  • noun A victress.

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  • noun female victor; victress

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • For an acutely observed portrayal of a mind in turmoil Anna Kavan must take the victrix ludorum (I've tweaked the Victor bit because I know my Latin teacher of forty years ago is out there with her red pen)

    The Parson - Anna Kavan 2007

  • For an acutely observed portrayal of a mind in turmoil Anna Kavan must take the victrix ludorum (I've tweaked the Victor bit because I know my Latin teacher of forty years ago is out there with her red pen)

    42 entries from November 2007 2007

  • For an acutely observed portrayal of a mind in turmoil Anna Kavan must take the victrix ludorum (I've tweaked the Victor bit because I know my Latin teacher of forty years ago is out there with her red pen)

    The Parson - Anna Kavan 2007

  • Patris sequendo Filium, victis triumphas hostibus, victor victrix fruens cælestibus.

    Archive 2008-10-01 bls 2008

  • Patris sequendo Filium, victis triumphas hostibus, victor victrix fruens cælestibus.

    October 23: St. James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr bls 2008

  • In his victrix he required all that was here visible — the imprint of high cultivation, the consecration of

    Villette 2003

  • Failing reduction, they withdrew on June 24th; leaving her banners inscribed -- _Vicksburg victrix!

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • Sufficient grace, as a weak delight, imparts merely the ability (posse), or such a feeble will that only the advent of the victorious delight of grace (delectatio coelestis victrix, caritas) can guarantee the will and the actual deed.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Not the conquering power of the heavenly delight (delectatio coelestis victrix), which is emphasized in the Augustinian system also, but the idea that this delight cannot be resisted (gratia irrestibilis) was branded as heresy by Innocent X on 31 May, 1653 (cf. Denzinger, "Enchiridion Symbolorum", ed. Bannwart, S.J., 1908, n. 1093 and 1095).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • But Alice had fled, leaving Patricia the victrix of her bloodless battle-field.

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

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