Meanings
plural hatresses
- archaicA female hater.
[…] a man-hatress, as clever girls so often are […]
1893, The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, page 1762 more examples
How characteristic, again, of the man-hatress is Nausicaa's attempt to make out that in Ulyssses she had found a man to whom she really might become attached — if there were no obstacle to their union.
1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey, page 145Hatress of music and living and art, / Grendel's mother with a deadly drool
1989, Alan Ansen, Contact Highs: Selected Poems, 1957-1987, page 142
Origin
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