dictatressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dictatress (plural dictatresses)

1. A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.
   • 1601, William Fulbecke, An Historicall Collection of the Continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians‎, London: William Ponsonby, Book 1, Page 86:

     […] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.

   • 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers‎, London: James Cawthorn, page 54:

     What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:

   • 1821, John Quincy Adams, address delivered on 4 July, 1821, cited in Antony Jay (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 4,

     America […] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own […] she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue […] which assume the colours and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force […] She might become dictatress of the world.

   • 1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29,

     Wellington’s first wife does not belong among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen.

   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 12, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press:

     “How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let us make a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.”

同意語

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