Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female who conquers; a victorious female.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who conquers.
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- noun A female
conqueror
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Examples
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And I always found in others, as well as in myself, that a first passion thoroughly subdued, made the conqueror of it a rover; the conqueress a tyrant.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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She might have done this with some show of justice, had the last-intended violation been perpetrated: — but to go away conqueress and triumphant in every light! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871
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All those calculations seemed accurate, all those hopes well-founded; and Madame de Chevreuse left Brussels firmly persuaded that she was about to re-enter the Louvre as a conqueress.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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These generous expressions were not lost on Betty; on the contrary, they soothed her so much that she gave her hand cordially to her young and interesting conqueress, after which they all repaired to a supper of new milk and flummery, than which there is nothing more delicious within the wide range of luxury.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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-- [MS. M.] [oc] {404} _Love from her duties -- still a conqueress in the war_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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I love, from my soul, to conquer a conqueress; and many a one, cousin, have I conquered in my time.
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In the garden he found The gentle conqueress, Mrs. MacKenzy, Who accosted him in the most friendly manner.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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