What does afflictress mean?
Afflictress means (rare) A female afflicter..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) A female afflicter..
Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention.
Sisinnios was also a Christian name from the end of the first century onwards, frequent for martyrs of the 4th cent., especially under Diocletian, to whose period was attributed St. Sisinnios of Antioch, the magical opponent of the demonic afflictress of childbirth.
Another afflictress of childbirth in the Talishi beliefs is Shasha (šaša).
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Afflictress means (rare) A female afflicter..
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Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention.
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