Murderess
['mɝdərəs]
Definition
(n.) A woman who commits murder.
Editor: Xenia
Examples
- A murderess, indeed! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whether Mr. Murderer and Mrs. Murderess Manning were not both unusually stout people? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Open the one directed to yourself, which I stopped this very morning, and read the three words 'Lady Dedlock, Murderess' in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Very good: you think I'm a murderess then, replied Mrs. Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If she really were the murderess, it could hardly be, for the moment, more intense. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have done wonders with murderesses--I have never advanced an inch with Aunt Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But by your son's, your son's--May all murderesses get the torment they deserve! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Ora