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Definition of Traitoresses
1. traitoress [n] - See also: traitoress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Traitoresses
Literary usage of Traitoresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"She has lately sent him to Cromwell, and exclaims incessantly that the ladies
are rebels and traitoresses, and that they deserve death. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"... he solemnly proclaims all reigning women to be traitoresses and rebels against
God ; discharges all men thenceforward from holding any office under such ..."
3. Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography by John Esten Cooke, Moses Drury Hoge, John William Jones (1876)
"... and a flight of stairs in the building they occupied fell, killing and wounding
a large number of them, you should have seen the fair young traitoresses ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine (1870)
"... and that they ought to be punished as traitoresses under the form of the
statute.1 ' The said concubine,' he continued, ' is prouder and haughtier than ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine (1870)
"... to be punished as traitoresses under the form of the statute.1 ' The said
concubine,' he con- tinned, ' is prouder and haughtier than ever. ..."
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