What does tormentress mean?
Tormentress means A female tormentor..
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/tɔɹˈmɛn.tɹəs/ · noun
A female tormentor..
Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour.
But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind.
"Tell me," I repeated, but, alas ! miserably out of tune. My confusion rapidly increased, when the fair tormentress, turning towards me, said, perhaps it is my fault — I am not playing correctly?"
Use tormentress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tormentress means A female tormentor..
Common synonyms include tormentrix.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour.
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