Autocratess

Quick meaning: Autocratess is a noun meaning (archaic) A female autocrat.

Meaning

(archaic) A female autocrat.

Example Sentences

Much has been said of the “despotism of the autocratesses,” of their personal dislikes, political biases, individual prejudices and partialities.

Russia, indeed, made rapid progress in arts, civilization, and power, under autocrats and autocratesses that were libertines in practice, and infidels in principle.

The wives and daughters of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees traced up to the Heptarchy, have been seen humbling themselves by the lowest acts of degradation to soften the obdurate autocratesses; […]

On all of these vessels is the following inscription: “By the most high and god-loving order of the most pious great Gosudarina Catharine II., Empress and Autocratess of all Russia, this vessel was made to be used for the boiling of the holy oil, in the sixth year of her majesty’s prosperous reign, and from the birth of Christ the Saviour, the 1767th year.”

Word Forms

• autocratesses

Synonyms for autocratess

Depending on context, synonyms include autocratress, autocratrix.

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