Machinatrix
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.
"1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act II., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 421. No; thou! thou art the sole machinatrix of all these terrible crimes, thou whose wickedness as a woman is supplemented with that masculine strength which has endowed thee with the audacity to perpetrate such deeds […]"
Example
More examples"1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act II., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 421. No; thou! thou art the sole machinatrix of all these terrible crimes, thou whose wickedness as a woman is supplemented with that masculine strength which has endowed thee with the audacity to perpetrate such deeds […]"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin māchinātrīx. By surface analysis, machinate + -trix.
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