Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female detractor; a censorious woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female detractor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female detractor .
Etymologies
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detractor + -ess
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Examples
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‘detractress’ (Addison); ‘hucksteress’ (Howell); ‘tutoress’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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