advoutressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English advowteresse, avouteres, avoutresse, avowtres, avowtresse, from Old French; equivalent to advoutrer +‎ -ess.

名詞

advoutress (複数形 advoutresses)

1. (obsolete) An adulteress.
   • c. 1612, Francis Bacon, "Of Empire" in The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon (2013 edition), →ISBN, p. 758 (Google preview):

     Edward the Second of England, his queen, had the principal hand in the deposing and murder of her husband. This kind of danger, is then to be feared chiefly, when the wives have plots, for the raising of their own children; or else that they be advoutresses.

関連する語

• advoutrer, avouterer, avoutrer
• advoutry, advowtry, avowtry

参照

• advoutress at OneLook Dictionary Search