instigatrix
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.
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Feminine Female equivalent of instigator.
- Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24: