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competitress|kəmˈpɛtɪtrɪs|
[f. competitor + -ess. Fr. and L. forms of the same are seen in the two following words.]
A female competitor.
1645J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumphing 42 It hath the preheminence of its Competitresse to the value of 1500 yeers. 1672Hieragonist 136 (T.) Oxford and Cambridge; with whom the Grecian Athens itself was no fit competitress. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 132 Penelopè is scarcely a less formidable competitress with all later attempts to delineate the queenly matron. |