Citations:contendress

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English citations of contendress

  1. (nonce word, obsolete) A female contender.
    • 1858, Chapman, “A Hymn to Venus”, in Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams, page 82:
      The all-of-gold-made laughter-loving Dame
      Left odorous Cyprus, and for Troy became
      A swift contendress, her pass cutting all
      Along the clouds, and made her instant fall
      On fountful Ida, that her mother-breasts
      Gives to the preyful brood of savage beasts.
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