Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See electoress.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

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  • noun The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

Etymologies

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Compare French électrice.

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Examples

  • Us shall be chosen as the first of the last by the electress of

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • No electress at all but old Moppa Necessity, angin mother of injons.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Madame, who grieved over the recent death of her aunt the electress Sophie, was in the throne room with the king.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Madame, who grieved over the recent death of her aunt the electress Sophie, was in the throne room with the king.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Madame, who grieved over the recent death of her aunt the electress Sophie, was in the throne room with the king.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • There was a little ostensible hesitation; and the electress so managed that the crown should seem to be forced upon her.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • In political science he had long had the ablest counsellor in Europe at his elbow, Leibnitz, the friend of the electress.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Mr. WOOD: My amendment says elector, not electress, and until the ladies have the privilege of electors of the United States I propose to exclude them.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • The duchess was always frightful; so much so that one night the electress, who had acquired a little English, said to Mrs. Howard, afterwards Lady Suffolk, -- glancing at Mademoiselle Schulemberg -- 'Look at that _mawkin_, and think of her being my son's passion!'

    The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847

  • He wedded Madame Lehmann, the wife of a Prussian officer, under the name of the Countess von Schaumburg, and closed the theatre against his mother, the electress, for refusing to place herself at her side in public.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

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