instigatrix

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A form of instigator — A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.

OriginLatin īnstīgātrīx →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nouninstigatrix (plural instigatrices)

plural instigatrices

  1. feminineFemale equivalent of instigator.
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    Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]

    1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
instigatress

Origin

  1. Latinīnstīgātrīx
  2. Englishinstigatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.

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APA

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“instigatrix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instigatrix. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “instigatrix,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instigatrix.

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