MURDERESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does murderess mean? 

• MURDERESS (noun)
  The noun MURDERESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman murderer

  Familiarity information: MURDERESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURDERESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman murderer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("murderess" is a kind of...):

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

 Context examples 

She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Here then I was in the third storey, fastened into one of its mystic cells; night around me; a pale and bloody spectacle under my eyes and hands; a murderess hardly separated from me by a single door: yes—that was appalling—the rest I could bear; but I shuddered at the thought of Grace Poole bursting out upon me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)