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English
Etymology
From perpetrator + -ess.
Noun
perpetratress (plural perpetratresses)
- (rare, obsolete) A female perpetrator.
1844, Hampton Court, or, The prophecy fulfilled, page 291:He changed colour, and looked at Mr. Ashburnham and the Duke of Richmond, whilst a titter of gratified malignity at being successful in wounding a nobler soul than their own, discovered to their astonished monarch the perpetratresses of a graceless, heartless disloyalty whose existence he never could have believed.
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