English

L’Assassinat de Marat (The Assassination of Marat, 1860) by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France. It depicts the assassinatrix Charlotte Corday after she stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath on 13 July 1793. Marat was a leader of the radical Jacobin Club which had played a key role in the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

Noun

assassinatrix ‎(plural assassinatrices)

1. (rare) A female assassin.
   • 1881, Leonard A. Montefiore, Essays and Letters Contributed to Various Periodicals between September 1877 and August 1879, together with Some Unpublished Fragments, London: [s.n.], OCLC 842165, page xlvi:

     The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix.

Synonyms

• assassinatress

Related terms

• assassin
• assassinator