fornicatress

== English == === Etymology === Compare French fornicatrice, Latin fornicatrix. === Noun === fornicatress (plural fornicatresses) (obsolete) A female fornicator; a fornicatrix. 1856: Meditations and prayers to the Holy Trinity and our Lord Jesus Christ by S. Anselm, Sometimes Archbishop of Canterbury For thou, thou, my wretched soul, perverse harlot, shameless fornicatress, thou first castedst off God, thy Lover and thy Creator, and betookest thyself of thine own accord to the devil, thine ensnarer and destroyer. 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2 (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement. === References === “fornicatress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.