Dictatrix

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female dictator.

    "Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment."

  2. 2
    A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates. archaic

    "the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy"

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dictatress

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"Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment."

Etymology

From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate + -trix.

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