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Definition of Arbitresses
1. arbitress [n] - See also: arbitress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbitresses
Literary usage of Arbitresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Times of Stein, Or, Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age by John Robert Seeley (1879)
"They are the absolute arbitresses, who determine the future of a nation, and no
Government calls them to account either for the matter or the form of their ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1884)
"Naturally, a councillor who was as deeply in the confidence of these arbitresses
of fashion was not unfrequently the object of gentle importunities at the ..."
3. The Odes of Pindar by Pindar, Dawson William Turner, Abraham Moore (1852)
"For neither do the gods, without the honoured Charites, lead the dances or arrange
the banquet; but, arbitresses of all that is wrought in heaven, ..."
4. The Southern Review (1828)
"The same women participated in public affairs, and were often selected as judges
and arbitresses.* " Among the ancient Germans, and other northern nations, ..."
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