"dictatrix" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 3, in The Caxtons, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 70:",
          "text": "Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.",
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          "text": "Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune.",
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          "ref": "1937, Caroline Gordon, chapter 11, in The Garden of Adonis, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, published 1971, page 131:",
          "text": "There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville. They run wherever she leads them.",
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          "ref": "1995 January, Thomas M. Disch, “The Lipstick on the Mirror”, in Poetry, page 192:",
          "text": "the face of the distant / Sovereign began to melt and coalesce / With the faces of all women fair and rich: / Movie starlets, heiresses, cruel / Dictatrices, anchorwomen, teen murderesses / Able to sell their tales to Hollywood.",
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          "ref": "2011, Joanna Lumley, Absolutely,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 141:",
          "text": "My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end.",
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          "word": "diktaattori"
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          "ref": "1648, Jeremy Taylor, Treatises […] together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, dedicatory epistle, page 42:",
          "text": "the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy",
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          "text": "1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240,\n[…] how can you […] plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes?"
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