单词 | victoress |
释义 | † victoressn. Obsolete. A female victor. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun] > female victricea1387 conqueressa1400 triumphatrice1430 vainqueressa1513 victoress1586 victress1601 victrix1651 triumphressc1780 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xi. 44 I am his Victor, but thy selfe art Victoresse of me. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo7v But when the victoresse arriued there,..Neither of them she found where she them lore. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον v. 237 Oh Elphlede mightie both in strength and mind. The dread of men and victoresse of thy kind. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. xv. xxix. 452 Posthumius Tubertus..rode triumphant in this manner, to wit, crowned with a chaplet of Myrtle, dedicated to Venus Victoresse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1586 |
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