Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

afflictress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: af-flic-tress
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female afflicter.

Example Sentences

"Let us count our afflictresses: we have Eve, Delilah, Pandora, Dejanira, Helen, the daughters of Pandarus, Messalina, the Empress of Russia, and several queens and empresses whom we need not mention."
"Sisinnios was also a Christian name from the end of the first century onwards, frequent for martyrs of the 4th cent., especially under Diocletian, to whose period was attributed St. Sisinnios of Antioch, the magical opponent of the demonic afflictress of childbirth."
"Another afflictress of childbirth in the Talishi beliefs is Shasha (šaša)."

Etymology

From afflicter + -ess.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: afflicter

Inflected Forms

afflictresses (plural)

Questions

What does afflictress mean?: A female afflicter.
Where does afflictress come from?: From afflicter + -ess.

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