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English
Etymology
From Middle English turmenteresse. By surface analysis, tormentor + -ess.
Pronunciation
Noun
tormentress (plural tormentresses)
- A female tormentor.
- Synonym: tormentrix
1601, C Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour.
1996, Gordon Williams, Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution:But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind.
1836, The Meerut Universal Magazine, volume 2, page 390:"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?"
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