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corruptress|kəˈrʌptrɪs|
[f. corrupter + -ess.]
A female corrupter; also fig. of things.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 316 Man's fierce corruptress, Fight, Set up her bristles in the field with lances long and light. 1624Fletcher Wife for Month iv. iii, Peace, thou rude bawd Thou studied old corruptress. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. i. 2 What terms wouldst thou have me to keep with such a sweet corruptress? 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 11 Ionia had been the corruptress of Greece, Ephesus was the corruptress of Ionia. |