hatress en · NOUN
Etymology
From hater + -ess.
Meanings
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(archaic) A female hater.
Hatress of music and living and art, / Grendel's mother with a deadly drool
1989, Alan Ansen, Contact Highs: Selected Poems, 1957-1987, page 142:[…] a man-hatress, as clever girls so often are […]
1893, The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, page 176:How characteristic, again, of the man-hatress is Nausicaa's attempt to make out that in Ulyssses she had found a man to whom she really might become attached — if there were no obstacle to their union.
1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey, page 145:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hatresses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |