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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the daughters of Gaea and Uranus who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by Zeus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female Titan; a woman of surpassing size or power.

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  • proper noun Greek mythology A female Titan, any of the daughters of Uranus and Gaia.

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  • noun (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant goddesses who were offspring of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth) in ancient mythology

Etymologies

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Titan +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • The ancient Greeks honored Rhea, the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, who was known as the Mother of all the Gods.

    Barbara Lazaroff: Wishes For A Mother's Heart Barbara Lazaroff 2011

  • The ancient Greeks honored Rhea, the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, who was known as the Mother of all the Gods.

    Barbara Lazaroff: Wishes For A Mother's Heart Barbara Lazaroff 2011

  • Melpo Mene is named after the Greek muse of tragedy, who in mythology is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (the Titaness who rules memory).

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Nine 2009

  • O Titaness among deities! the covered outline of thine aspect sickens often through its uncertainty, but define to us one trait, show us one lineament, clear in awful sincerity; we may gasp in untold terror, but with that gasp we drink in a breath of thy divinity; our heart shakes, and its currents sway like rivers lifted by earthquake, but we have swallowed strength.

    Villette 2003

  • But whoever, in those mystic ages that have ceased to be historic and have become mythic, whoever made the Sphinx, -- whether it were some Titaness sequestered from all her kind by genie-spells, forced to live amid these desert solitudes, fed from the abundant hands of Nature, and taught by dreams inspired and twilight visions, --

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

  • The antique weapon was held by stout thongs to the wall; she plucked it from its fastenings with the strength of a Titaness.

    A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

  • But you must imagine the estuary – you can only get that tiny peep of water, glittering like a great diamond that some young Titaness has flung out of her necklace, down among the hills.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • And there's something so gloriously free in this high level common – as flat as if my Titaness had found a little Mont Blanc, and amused herself with patting it down like a dough-cake.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • Titaness, rising from her sleep, with trailing white robes, which caught on the trees and the points of rock, and hung in fleecy tatters on the hillside, and curled in snowy circles through the coves and hollows.

    Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • But the muse of their inspiration was not the tragic Titaness of Dürer's painting:

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

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