Meaning of denunciatrix | Babel Free

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A female denunciator.

no-plural

Examples

“This Magiſtrate was ſo far gained by Mrs. Hamilton, as to admit her as Instigatrix, Plaintiff, Denunciatrix, and Witness.”

“The fierce denunciatrix of Woman’s Wrongs could see no wrong in her invalid sister getting supper for her, while she herself sat in idleness.”

“And is it not doubly singular—singularity upon singularity, so to speak—that we should have waged it?—that we, that for some seven centuries have been so far in the van of the progress of humanity, should now be as far in the rear, that the Mother of Freedom, with her Magna Charta, her Habeas Corpus Act, her Bill of Bights, and her well-nigh faultless Reformation, the first originatrix of the representative system of government, the first denunciatrix and repudiatrix of slavery, the first propounderess of the sublime principle of Free Trade—should now, for nearly three years, have been waging war against the world’s last, and perhaps greatest, discovery—the principle on which all Christendom, except ourselves and Russia, is fully agreed—that every civilised people, every people not wholly barbarous, every Christian Aryan people, should enjoy the incalculable blessing of self-government, which alone is perfect liberty?”

““It was sufficiently proved by Marie, wife of Jehannin de Trambley,” the denunciatrix;—action of Sedille Lenglaiche “for the reason that Estienne the painter had denounced against her . . . acquitted by action tried between her and the said Estienne (4 May, 1345).””

“She was living, more vividly and intensely than any passage of daily life, her mystic role of Denunciatrix.”

“Had he not observed this in his own Jersey daughter, who exercised daily private custom’s rights upon shillings from her mother’s handbag, and had been the immediate denunciatrix of the caca in every neighbour’s nappy?”

“The denunciator (more particularly the denunciatrix) dislikes publicity.”

“When Kaganovich informed Stalin of this ‘heroic denunciatrix’, he immediately grasped her usefulness.”

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