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impostress|ɪmˈpɒstrɪs|
[f. imposter, impostor + -ess; perh. after OF. imposteresse (Godefroy), but cf. actor, -tress, hunter, -tress.]
A female impostor. Now rare.
1614Bacon Let. to Jas. I 11 Feb., The impostress Elizabeth Barton. 1665Wither Lord's Prayer 132 Reason is cryed down as an Impostress. 1772Poetry in Ann. Reg. 212 No wonder if th' impostress had deceiv'd. 1839Pye Smith Script. & Geol. 179 It was an impostress under the name of philosophy. |