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Webster 1913 Edition


Victoress

Vic′tor-ess

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Noun.
A victress.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Victoress

VIC'TORESS

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Noun.
A female who vanquishes.

Definition 2024


victoress

victoress

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Noun

victoress (plural victoresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female victor.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
      But when the Victoresse arrived there / Where late she left the pensife Scudamore / With her own trusty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them she found where she them lore […].