Meanings
nountraitoresse (plural traitoresses)
plural traitoresses
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of traitoress.
They must refuse to be her officers, because she is a traitoresse and rebell against God.
1558, John Knox, edited by Edward Arber, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women (quotation in English; overall work in English)1 more example
There ſhall your Maſter haue a thouſand loues, / A Mother, and a Miſtreſſe, and a friend, / A Phenix, Captaine, and an enemy, / A guide, a Goddeſſe, and a Soueraigne, / A Counſellor, a Traitoreſſe, and a Deare: […]
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 231, column 2
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