Meaning of torturess | Babel Free

Definitions

A female torturer.

Examples

“[…] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.”

“Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]”

“The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […]”

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