fornicatress

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fornicatress

(ˈfɔːnɪˌkeɪtrəs)

a female fornicator

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fornicatress - a woman adulterer

adulteress, hussy, loose woman, strumpet, trollop, slut, jade

adulterer, fornicator - someone who commits adultery or fornication

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Angelo's "precise" (puritanical) speech reveals itself negatively in the Latinate pomposity of his calling Claudio's beloved Juliet a "fornicatress" (2.2.26), but positively in his realization that he, feeling physical desire for the nun Isabella, unlike "the violet in the sun," "[c]orrupt[s] with virtuous season," as carrion indeed does (2.2.173-75).