Dictatress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.

    "[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome."

Synonyms

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dictatrixdictatrix

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"[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome."

Etymology

From dictator + -ess.

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