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Definition of Murderesses
1. murderess [n] - See also: murderess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murderesses
Literary usage of Murderesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bench and Bar: Reminiscences of One of the Last of an Ancient Race by Benjamin Coulson Robinson (1891)
"... —The Luxury of being talked about—Dilettante Lawyers— Circumstantial
Evidence—Experts—How chosen—Petting young and good-looking Murderesses. ..."
2. The Female offender by Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero (1897)
"After prostitutes, the abnormal figures are furnished by poisoners and murderesses,
in whom the action, when anomalous, is tardy. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The women in other apartments, some notable murderesses among them, ... The notable
murderesses were, though with great precautions of privacy, ..."
4. Horace Chase: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1894)
"That all true musicians have very thick hair 2" " Also murderers ; I mean the
women — the murderesses," remarked Dolly. " Oh, Dolly, what ideas you do have ..."
5. Modern Women and what is Said of Them: Reprint of a Series of Articles in by Elizabeth Lynn] [Linton (1868)
"Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Catharine de' Medici, Mrs. Manning, and the
old-fashioned murderesses in novels, are all of the muscular, black-brigand type, ..."
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