What does instigatrix mean?
Instigatrix means Female equivalent of instigator..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Female equivalent of instigator..
Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]
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Instigatrix means Female equivalent of instigator..
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Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]
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