murderess
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of murderess
1350–1400; Middle English moerdrice, morderes; see murder, -ess
Example Sentences
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Marten said she was worried people would think she was "some evil mother" or a "murderess."
From BBC • May 2, 2025
In this eerie, rather primitive context, its easy to surmise that the murderess is a witch.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Rivera also inhabited roles like Rosie, the girlfriend of a rock star’s manager in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the original Velma and later the ambitious murderess Roxie in “Chicago,” and former showgirl Lilane in “Nine.”
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024
A 1950s lawman pursues a murderess who appears to have vanished from a locked room within a fortresslike psychiatric hospital.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
At that time the Roman Empire, which had never ceased to exist at Constantinople, fell into the hands of Irene, the murderess of her son.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
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