dictatrix
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment."
- "Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune."
- "There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville. They run wherever she leads them."
- "the face of the distant / Sovereign began to melt and coalesce / With the faces of all women fair and rich: / Movie starlets, heiresses, cruel / Dictatrices, anchorwomen, teen murderesses / Able to sell their tales to Hollywood."
- "My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end."
- "the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dictātrīx