torturess
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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 […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English torturer Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English torturess From torturer + -ess.