perpetratress

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English

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Etymology

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From perpetrator +‎ -ess.

Noun

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perpetratress (plural perpetratresses)

  1. (rare, obsolete) A female perpetrator.
    • 1844, Hampton Court, or, The prophecy fulfilled, page 291:
      He changed colour, and looked at Mr. Ashburnham and the Duke of Richmond, whilst a titter of gratified malignity at being successful in wounding a nobler soul than their own, discovered to their astonished monarch the perpetratresses of a graceless, heartless disloyalty whose existence he never could have believed.

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