competitressn.
/kəmˈpɛtᵻtrᵻs/, /kəmˌpɛtᵻˈtrɛs/, U.S. /kəmˈpɛdətrəs/ A female competitor.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > female
emulatress1620
competitress1645
emulatrix1651
rivaless1655
1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 42 It hath the preheminence of its Competitresse to the value of 1500 yeers.
1672 Hieragonist 136 (T.) Oxford and Cambridge; with whom the Grecian Athens itself was no fit competitress.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 132 Penelopè is scarcely a less formidable competitress with all later attempts to delineate the queenly matron.
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