torturess

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noun

A female torturer.

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Meanings

nountorturess (plural torturesses)

plural torturesses

  1. A female torturer.

    Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]

    2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal
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    […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.

    1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari

    The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […]

    2005, Catherine Constable, Thinking in Images

Origin

From torturer + -ess.

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torturess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/torturess

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

Chicago

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