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tyrantess

tyrantess

English

Noun

tyrantess ‎(plural tyrantesses)

A female tyrant.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
  ‘Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […].’

Synonyms

tyranness