"Intrudress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'Jesuitess' (Bishop Hall); 'incitress' (Gayton); 'soldieress', 'guardianess', 'votaress' (all in Beaumont and Fletcher); 'comfortress', 'fosteress' (Ben Jonson); 'soveraintess' (Sylvester); 'preserveress' (Daniel); 'solicitress', 'impostress', 'buildress', 'intrudress' (all in Fuller); 'favouress' (Hakewell); 'commandress' (Burton); 'monarchess', 'discipless' (Speed); 'auditress', 'cateress', 'chantress', 'tyranness' (all in Milton); 'citess', 'divineress' (both in Dryden); 'deaness' (Sterne); 'detractress' (Addison); ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
