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murderess

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9 lettersPronunciation /mɜːdəˈɹɛs/Part of speech nounSorted deemrrssuStarts with MEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman murderer

Word origin

From Middle English morderes, from Old French morderesse, moeurdrese; equivalent to murder + -ess.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘[…] Yet am I very fair, Kallikrates!’ / ‘I hate thee, murdress, and I have no wish to see thee.[…]’
  • With the main crisis is linked the scene in which the murderess, casting off the mask of her hypocrisy, openly exults in her deed, defends herself, and defies her subjects.
  • “All the murderesses I met in prison”, she [Kathryn George-Harries] says lightly, “had committed their crimes in domestic arguments. They chose the gun. I chose to go for the Meissen. Nobody’s worth doing life for.”

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