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Etymology
From Middle English conqueresse, conquiris, conquires, probably from Old French; equivalent to conquer + -ess.
Noun
conqueress (plural conqueresses)
- A female conqueror.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 278:And now by this the noble Conquereſſe / Her ſelfe came in, her glory to partake;
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