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Definition of Titanesses
1. titaness [n] - See also: titaness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Titanesses
Literary usage of Titanesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Friend the Chauffeur by Charles Norris Williamson (1905)
""It's the water filtering in through the holes your titanesses' hatpins have made
in their big pincushion," explained Mr. Bar- ..."
2. The Story of the Greatest Nations: From the Dawn of History to the Twentieth by Edward Sylvester Ellis, Charles Francis Horne (1903)
"Six of the beautiful men were gods called Titans, and there were six goddesses
called titanesses. The gods made their home on the crest of Mount Olympus, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1848)
"... his family could ' not be assembled around, him, so that the choice lay among
his ' brothers and sisters, the Titans and titanesses. ..."
4. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"of heaven-storming Titans and titanesses he appears a peculiarly earth-bound
creature. But he is of the race of the Cyclopes ; he was a mighty ..."
5. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"... last and best of the titanesses, — Ogress, fed with milk instead of blood;
not least, or least handsome, among Oxford's stately structures,— Oxford, ..."
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