Afflictress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female afflicter. rare
"Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention."
Example
More examples"Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention."
Etymology
From afflicter + -ess.
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