Definition of "exactress" []

• A female exactor. (noun)

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• "Isaiah (14: 4) the "golden city" (R.V. marg., "exactress," adopting the reading marhebah, instead of the usual word madhebah)."
• "The mystical Babylon is ultimately meant. golden city -- rather, "the exactress of gold" [Maurer]."
• "How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the exactress of gold ceased!"