traytoresse

English

Noun

traytoresse (plural traytoresses)

1. Obsolete spelling of traitoress.
   • [1554?], Ihon Bochas, translated by Iohn Lidgate, The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell from Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune since the Creacion of Adam, vntil His Time Wherin May Be Seen What Vices Bring Menne to Destruccion, wyth Notable Warninges Howe the Like May Be Auoyded, London: […] Iohn Wayland:

     My selfe disherited for loue of your persone, / Called in my countrey a false traytoresse: […] First Amazias complayned on fortune / Causing his grcuous great aduersities, / The traytoresse called in commune, / These kinges twayne castyng frō their sees: […]

   • 1558, Christopher Goodman, How Superior Powers Oght to Be Obeyd of Their Subiects and Wherin They May Lawfully by Gods Worde be Disobeyed and Resisted. Wherin Also Is Declared the Cause of All This Present Miserie in England, and the Onely Way to Remedy the Same., Geneva: […] Iohn Crispin, page 99:

     So that now both by Gods Lawes and mās, she oght to be punished with death, as an opē idolatres in the sight of God, ād a cruel murtherer of his Saīts before mē, ād merciles traytoresse to her owne natiue coūtrie.

   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage Played by the Children of Her Maiesties Chappell, London: […] the widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke:

     Away with her to prison presently, / Traytoresse too keend and cursed Sorceresse.

   • 1660, Peter Heylyn, Historia Quinqu-Articularis: or, A Declaration of the Judgement of the Western Churches, and More Particularly of the Church of England, in the Five Controverted Points, Reproched in These Last Times by the Name of Arminianism. Collected in the Way of an Historicall narration, out of the Publick Acts and Monuments, and Most Approved Authors of Those Severall Churches., London: […] E.C. for Thomas Johnson, page 80:

     Fourthly, that in order to the said end, the Lady Margaret (sister to K. Edw. 4.) was appointed and predestinate of God to be a Traytoresse to England, and to imploy all her wits, forces and power;

   • 1688, Inca Garcilasso de la Vega, translated by Paul Rycaut, The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Samuel Heyrick, page 496:

     Ah wicked Whores and Traytoreſſes, if onely with talk of the Spaniards you are ſo pleaſed, what would you doe and act with them, if they were preſent?

   • 1739, The History of the Works of the Learned, for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-eight: […], volume II, London: […] Jacob Robinson, page 288:

     Theſe Traytoreſſes, after they had wrecked the Veſſels, pretended to wail over them.

Middle English

Noun

traytoresse

1. Alternative form of traytouresse
   • end of the 14th century, The Seven Sages, in English Verse, London: […] for the Percy Society, by T. Richards, published 1845, lines 3426–3433:

     And maynted hys son aryght / Bothe by day and by nyght, / And hys clerkys thre and fyve, / Tha[t] holpyn to save hys sone on lyve / With sevene talys that thay tolde, / The sevene clerkys that were so bolde, / Agayns the wyle traytoresse, / Hys stepmoder the emperesse.

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   • 2005 (published), John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Narrative Tragedy in Its Literary and Political Contexts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 231:

     Wyffe to humfrey duke of glosester howe y⸌e⸍ sayd humfrey ungodly maryed, she beynge y⸌e⸍ lawfull wyffe of John duke of brabaunt, ⁊ besyde her he all so y⸌e⸍ company of othar amongste y⸌e⸍ whiche was one Elianor Chobham, who by sorsere ⁊ wicche craftes caused hym to leave y⸌e⸍ said Jaquyl of holand ⁊ to marie hem y⸌e⸍ sayd Elianore, who afftar was a traytoresse to kynge henry y⸌e⸍ vj

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