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

His wife is named Lucretia, and that is my cousin’s name.

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Betty Gilpin portrays First Lady Lucretia Garfield as her husband’s intellectual equal.

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As to the first lady, “Lucretia Garfield was every bit her husband’s intellectual equal. But she couldn’t vote. There was a ceiling to what a woman in her day could accomplish,” Makowsky says, wistfully musing on what she might have achieved, given the chance.

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Having recently given birth, Gilpin took her family along to Budapest for filming, voraciously researching Lucretia and reading her entire correspondence with her husband.

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“Death by Lightning,” directed by “Captain Fantastic” auteur Matt Ross, boasts a remarkable cast: Betty Gilpin as First Lady Lucretia Garfield; Nick Offerman as Garfield’s successor, a hard-drinking, hard-partying Chester A. Arthur; Michael Shannon as James Garfield, the polymath president, crusader against corruption and noble to a fault; and Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Guiteau, the frustrated office-seeker who shot him.

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