Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female warrior.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female warrior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
female warrior .
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Examples
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You lost me at "warrioress," because it's such a sexist term.
HH Com 224 (220) Miss Snark 2006
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Strong amazon warrioress who falls for the nerdy kid?
Latest How to Train Your Dragon Movie Trailer Hangs on Dreamworks’ Dubious Animation Legacy | /Film 2009
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Another display of that shocking vulnerability in a warrioress.
Deep Kiss Of Winter Kresley Cole 2009
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I mean, she uses exactly the same talking points, like her butch feminism, her Native American features, her Amazonian warrioress persona I had a post planned with this title!
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism." Ann Althouse 2008
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She is a fertile mother, beautiful, and as a life-long huntress at home with guns and the military, qualifies as a warrioress already.
"Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy." Ann Althouse 2008
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Near the beginning of his journey, however, he becomes entangled with a young warrioress, Elle Wing, on a holy journey herself.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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Near the beginning of his journey, however, he becomes entangled with a young warrioress, Elle Wing, on a holy journey herself.
HH Com 224 (220) Miss Snark 2006
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Near the beginning of his journey, however, he becomes entangled with a young warrioress, Elle Wing, on a holy journey herself.
Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006
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Amazon, battered almost past recognition, but a warrioress still.
Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900
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The warrioress made answer, "ere life and fame be lost."
The Book of the Epic 1894
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