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By resorting to force, America "might become the dictatress of the world," he wrote, but "she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020

But Aunt Selina was dictatress of my destinies.

From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.

These medi�val ladies were as pitiless as the mystic spiritual dictatress of Browning's Numpholeptos, to their devotees: "Seeking love At end of toil, and finding calm above Their passion, the old statuesque regard."

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

She might become the dictatress of the world; she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

She has taken it into her head, I fear, that I am here as a restraint upon her; a sort of lady spy, a duenna, a dictatress, all combined in one, and all unpleasant.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)