What does dictatrix mean?
Dictatrix means A female dictator..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A female dictator..
Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.
Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune.
There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville. They run wherever she leads them.
the face of the distant / Sovereign began to melt and coalesce / With the faces of all women fair and rich: / Movie starlets, heiresses, cruel / Dictatrices, anchorwomen, teen murderesses / Able to sell their tales to Hollywood.
My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end.
1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240, […] how can you […] plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes?
the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy
Use dictatrix when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dictatrix means A female dictator..
Common synonyms include dictatress.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.
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