tyrantess

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English

Etymology

From tyrant +‎ -ess.

Noun

tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)

  1. A female tyrant.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
      Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]

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