Meaning of dictatress | Babel Free

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A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.

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“[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort⟳ that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.”

“What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have⟳ been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:”

“1821, John Quincy Adams, address delivered on 4 July, 1821, cited in Antony Jay (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Oxford University Press⟳, 1997, p. 4, America […] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own⟳ […] she would involve⟳ herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest⟳ and intrigue […] which assume⟳ the colours and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change⟳ from liberty to force⟳ […] She might become⟳ dictatress of the world.”

“1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29, Wellington’s first wife does not belong⟳ among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen.”

““How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let⟳ us make⟳ a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.””

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