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electress|ɪˈlɛktrɪs|
Also: 7–8 electoress. See also electrice, electrix.
[f. elector + -ess.]
1. The wife of a German Elector of the Empire.
1618Barnevelt's Apol. D iv, The Electoresse, and Countesse Palatine. 1703Ibid. No. 3896/2 The Electress of Bavaria..is removed..to Ingolstad. 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1822) I. 375 The electoress came in with one of her daughters. 1870Curtis Hist. Eng. 412 George I was the son of the electress Sophia, granddaughter of James I.
2. A female elector; a woman having a vote.
1869Spectator 6 Nov. 1295 The electresses evidently think, even more earnestly than the electors, that, etc. |