tyrantess

noun

tyrantess

noun

Etymology From Middle English tiraunessis pl; equivalent to tyrant + -ess.

1

A female tyrant.

Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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