Definition of "victress" []

• Alternative form of victoress. (noun)

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• "‘Anselmo remained amazed, and almost besides himself, hearing his friend Lothario so unexpectedly to acquaint him with those things in a time wherein he least expected them; for now he esteemed Camilla to have escaped victress from the forged assaults of Lothario, and did himself triumph for glory of her victory."
• "Wherever we went, we found traces of her passage: cemeteries and charnel-houses to bear witness that she was the great victress."
• "And the tug of music was there, and the tug of those words of the baroness about salvation -- the thought of achieving the impossible, reserved only for the woman of supreme charm, for the true victress."