perpetratress

English

Etymology

perpetrator +‎ -ess

Noun

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.