tyrantess
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tiraunessis pl; equivalent to tyrant + -ess.
Noun edit
tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)
- A female tyrant.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]