Lucretia

[loo-kree-shuh, -shee-uh]

noun

1. Roman Legend.,  Also Lucrece a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.

2. a female given name.

Lucretia

/ luːˈkriːʃɪə /

noun

1. (in Roman legend) a Roman woman who killed herself after being raped by a son of Tarquin the Proud

Example Sentences

In a strange coincidence of casting, she recently finished shooting the Netflix drama “Death by Lightning,” in which she portrays Lucretia Garfield, the wife of another doomed 19th century president.

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Their parents, Henry and Lucretia Clark, scraped together money in 1995 to buy the building and the siblings didn’t want to let go of it.

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In Philadelphia, the Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded by, among others, Charlotte Forten, granddaughter of black abolition pioneer James Forten, and Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two future leaders of the women’s rights movement.

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Common Pleas Judge Lucretia Clemons agreed the jury note was “inflammatory,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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At the convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott presented the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of demands and resolutions to be put forward for signatures, demands like the right to vote.

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