Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female rival.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female rival.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female rival .
Etymologies
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rival + -ess
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Examples
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So I had all my own entertaining reflections to myself; which gave me not one wink of sleep; but made me of so much service, as to tell him, when the clock struck four, that he should not (though I did not say so, you may think, Madam) make my ready rivaless (for I doubted not her being one of the party) wait for him.
Pamela 2006
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For, oh, my happy rivaless! if you tear from me my husband, he is in his own disposal, and I cannot help it: nor can I indeed, if he will give you my Billy.
Pamela 2006
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