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单词 autocratress
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autocratressn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; chiefly modelled on a Russian lexical item. Etymons: autocrator n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < autocrator n. + -ess suffix1 (see -tress suffix), originally and chiefly after Russian samoderžica (see autocrat n.). In Autocratress of all the Russias after Russian samoderžica vserossijskaja (see autocrat n.). Compare slightly earlier autocratrice n. and the French noun cited at that entry, and also earlier autocratrix n.
Obsolete. rare.
A title of a female tsar of Russia. More fully Autocratress of all the Russias. Cf. autocrat n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > female
empressc1350
tyranness1590
autocratrix1747
autocratrice1758
autocratress1763
tyrantess1890
1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 227/2 We Catharine II..autocratress of all the Russias.
1796 R. P. Knight Progress Civil Society v. 118 Whate'er the titles that thy power express..Empress, Czarina, or Autocratress!
1899 K. P. Wormeley tr. Prince de Ligne Mem. II. i. 15 Her..thee'd and thou'd Majesty still wore the air of the autocratress of all the Russias.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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