Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who betrays her trust; a perfidious woman; a female traitor: often used in a weakened, half-playful sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
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- noun Alternative form of
traitoress .
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- noun female traitor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seeing the Count approach, they continue to play their former roles, and the false Countess makes love to Figaro, till the Count accosts her as "traitress".
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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I will prove to all the world and to her, the traitress (I actually used the word 'traitress') that I can be revenged! '
The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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I shall appear a traitress to the dead, while, if I hate him, I shall incur my master's displeasure.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Yes, yes, he is calling her plainly enough a go-between in vice, traitress to her master's honour.
Hippolytus 2008
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For all that followed I must question my own heart, not thee; what frantic thought led me to follow the stranger from thy house, traitress to my country and my home?
The Trojan Women 2008
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Curses on thee! now perceive what then I missed in the day I brought thee, fraught with doom, from thy home in a barbarian land to dwell in Hellas, traitress to thy sire and to the land that nurtured thee.
Medea 2008
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Yes, yes, he is calling her plainly enough a go-between in vice, traitress to her master's honour.
Hippolytus 2008
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“Why, thou traitress, thou hast held me captive for months,” said the Prince, “and wilt thou not let me hold thee for a moment?”
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Hellas in a mighty war by proving a traitress to my husband.
Helen 2008
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But, as it was, his reasons for murdering my child were these: the wantonness of Helen and her husband's folly in not punishing the traitress.
Electra 2008
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