torturess

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

torturer +‎ -ess

Noun[edit]

torturess (plural torturesses)

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