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torturess en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English torturer Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English torturess From torturer + -ess.

Meanings

1. A female torturer.
   • Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […] 2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal:
   • […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time. 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari:
   • The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […] 2005, Catherine Constable, Thinking in Images:

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