tyrantess

English

Alternative forms

• tyranness (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tiraunessis pl; equivalent to tyrant +‎ -ess.

Noun

tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)

1. A female tyrant.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]