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Definition of Inventresses
1. inventress [n] - See also: inventress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventresses
Literary usage of Inventresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1900)
"All the inventresses are not successful, any more than all their brothers are.
... The number of French inventresses, however, has rapidly increased, ..."
2. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"These are those public Babel prostitutes, Lures to damnation ; Roman catamites \
inventresses of pleasures; pensive still To do what's good, but frolick to ..."
3. Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures, Delivered in the Divinity School of the by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1885)
"Granted, that " inventresses of things " could mean " reminding of duties," there
is nothing to limit the expression to these any more than to other duties ..."
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