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murderess|ˈmɜːdərɪs|
Also 4 moerdrice, 6–7 murdress(e, murtheress(e.
[f. murderer) + -ess. Cf. OF. morderesse.
Gower's moerdrice is properly a distinct word, imitating Fr. forms like emperice: see empress.]
A woman that commits murder.
1390Gower Conf. I. 346 Sche that was an homicide And of hire oghne lord Moerdrice. 1588A. Marten Exhort. H.M. Faithf. Subj. A 3 b, Athalea..was slayne..as a murtheresse of her owne children. c1605Rowley Birth Merl. v. ii, Thou murderess of a king. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 15 What want you woman will you be your owne murtheresse? 1677A. Behn Abdelazer i. iii, Hold! hold, inhumane Murdress; What hast thou done, most barbarous of thy sex? 1804Southey in Ann. Rev. II. 531 The parents, therefore, believe her to be the murderess, and prepare a fire to burn her. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. v. 87 Then laughed the murderess in her glee.
¶ In C. James Milit. Dict. (1802) and in later Dicts. murdress is given equivalent to meurtrière. |