violatress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The husband of the Swiss lady was for the first time in colloquy with the Argentine deputy, to whom he appeared to be explaining the mechanism of the patent log; and most comical was the profound attention which the listener seemed to pay, slowly turning his head now and then to glance at the sometime violatress of his quarters, who promenaded between the surly little Tuscan and the radiant tenor, all smiles and blandishments, but attentive to the other two, and well pleased, as may be supposed, at such unexpected overtures."
- "Rain, personified as a divinity named !khwa, usually directs his anger against maidens who have violated menstrual taboos and the punishment usually consists in transforming the violatress (and her people) into frogs or snakes (see /X. 8–10)."
- "Savioress or violatress, death is our consciousness of the unavoidable end, and the more acute that consciousness is, the more aimless life seems."