"Detractress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (Daniel); 'solicitress', 'impostress', 'buildress', 'intrudress' (all in Fuller); 'favouress' (Hakewell); 'commandress' (Burton); 'monarchess', 'discipless' (Speed); 'auditress', 'cateress', 'chantress', 'tyranness' (all in Milton); 'citess', 'divineress' (both in Dryden); 'deaness' (Sterne); 'detractress' (Addison); 'hucksteress' (Howell); 'tutoress' (Shaftesbury); 'farmeress' (Lord Peterborough, Letter to Pope); 'laddess', which however still survives in the contracted form of 'lass'{167}; with more which, I doubt not, it would not be ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
