Afflictress
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Afflictress is a noun meaning (rare) A female afflicter.
Meaning
(rare) A female afflicter.
Example Sentences
Another afflictress of childbirth in the Talishi beliefs is Shasha (šaša).
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.
Word Forms
- afflictresses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alienatress, avengeress, persecutress, agitatrix, persecutrix, aficionada.
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