denunciatrix

English

Noun

denunciatrix (plural not attested)

1. A female denunciator.
   • 1782, A Narrative of Circumstances Attending Mr. Beresford’s Marriage with Miss Hamilton, London, page 21:

     This Magiſtrate was ſo far gained by Mrs. Hamilton, as to admit her as Instigatrix, Plaintiff, Denunciatrix, and Witness.

   • 1862 February, J. L. M’Creery, “The Guardian Angel”, in T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, Virginia F[rances] Townsend, editors, Arthur’s Home Magazine, volume XIX, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. S. Arthur & Co., chapter III, page 76, column 2:

     The fierce denunciatrix of Woman’s Wrongs could see no wrong in her invalid sister getting supper for her, while she herself sat in idleness.

   • 1902 August, F. A. White, “Moral of the Late War”, in The Westminster Review, volume CLVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Company. […], page 139:

     And is it not doubly singular—singularity upon singularity, so to speak—that we should have waged it?—that we, that for some seven centuries have been so far in the van of the progress of humanity, should now be as far in the rear, that the Mother of Freedom, with her Magna Charta, her Habeas Corpus Act, her Bill of Bights, and her well-nigh faultless Reformation, the first originatrix of the representative system of government, the first denunciatrix and repudiatrix of slavery, the first propounderess of the sublime principle of Free Trade—should now, for nearly three years, have been waging war against the world’s last, and perhaps greatest, discovery—the principle on which all Christendom, except ourselves and Russia, is fully agreed—that every civilised people, every people not wholly barbarous, every Christian Aryan people, should enjoy the incalculable blessing of self-government, which alone is perfect liberty?

   • 1913, A[dhémar] Esmein, translated by John Simpson, A History of Continental Criminal Procedure with Special Reference to France (The Continental Legal History Series), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 123:

     “It was sufficiently proved by Marie, wife of Jehannin de Trambley,” the denunciatrix;—action of Sedille Lenglaiche “for the reason that Estienne the painter had denounced against her . . . acquitted by action tried between her and the said Estienne (4 May, 1345).”

   • 1940, Margery Sharp, The Stone of Chastity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Publications, Inc., published 1955, page 76:

     She was living, more vividly and intensely than any passage of daily life, her mystic role of Denunciatrix.

   • 1957, John Lodwick, Equator, page 242:

     Had he not observed this in his own Jersey daughter, who exercised daily private custom’s rights upon shillings from her mother’s handbag, and had been the immediate denunciatrix of the caca in every neighbour’s nappy?

   • 1987, Richard Cobb, translated by Marianne Elliott, The People’s Armies: The Armées Révolutionnaires: Instrument of the Terror in the Departments, April 1793 to Floréal Year II, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 413:

     The denunciator (more particularly the denunciatrix) dislikes publicity.

   • 2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 184:

     When Kaganovich informed Stalin of this ‘heroic denunciatrix’, he immediately grasped her usefulness.