Deianira

American  

[dee-yuh-nahy-ruh] / ˌdi yəˈnaɪ rə /

Or Deianeira

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.

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Deianira British  

/ ˌdiːəˈnaɪərə, ˌdeɪə- /

noun

1. Greek myth a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm

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Example Sentences

The cause of the contest, a young princess named Deianira, became his wife.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Before he died he told Deianira to take some of his blood and use it as a charm for Hercules if ever he loved another woman more than her.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The man who brought them to Deianira told her that Hercules was madly in love with this Princess.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Only a woman, too, was Deianira, the heroine of the Trachiniae, and though of exalted rank she fully realized this fact.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

The only description of Fama in Ovid is at Met IX 137-39 'Fama loquax praecessit ad aures, / Deianira, tuas, quae ueris addere falsa / gaudet, et e minima sua per mendacia crescit'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear