| 单词 | victress |
| 释义 | victress|ˈvɪktrɪs|
[f. L. victr- + -ess. Cf. next and victrix.]
A female victor or vanquisher.
1601Holland Pliny I. 452 Posthumius Tubertus..rode triumphant in this manner, to wit, crowned with a chaplet of Myrtle, dedicated to Venus Victresse [1634 Victoresse]. 1606― Sueton. 243 When the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third [eagle] came at the very instant from the sunne rising and chased the victresse away. 1637Heywood Dial. xviii. 244 She that's crownd Victresse by the Trojan Boy, For meed this golden Apple shall enioy. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 44 She as a Mother not a Victresse calls. 1741Shenstone Judgment Hercules 514 Not such the victress, Virtue's constant queen, Endur'd the test of truth. c1780M. Monsey in Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors (1860) II. 84 O Venus, send dire ruin on her head; Strike the destroyer, lay the victress dead. 1850W. P. Scargill Eng. Sketch-Bk. 21 Peggy Mumps, his sister, was victress in a chemise race. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 101 The painter has done his best for the victress in this rivalry. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xlv, ‘I wouldn't have given it him,’..the supposed victress was saying to herself. |
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