单词 | emulatress |
释义 | † emulatressn. Obsolete. rare. A female emulator. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > female emulatress1620 competitress1645 emulatrix1651 rivaless1655 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. ii. i. 65 History, the Emulatresse of Time. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxviii. 244 I was not willing my Girl should give way to the noble Emulatress. 1832 in N. Webster Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1620 |
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