conqueress

noun

conqueress

noun

Etymology From Middle English conqueresse, conquiris, conquires, probably from Old French; equivalent to conquer + -ess.

1

A female conqueror.

  • And now by this the noble Conquereſſe / Her ſelfe came in, her glory to partake;1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 278:
Synonyms
victoress, victress, victrice, victrix

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