| 释义 |
exactress rare.|ɛgˈzæktrɪs|
[f. exactor + -ess1.]
She that exacts, a female exactor.
1611Bible Isa. xiv. 4 How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city [marg. exactress of gold] ceesed! 1624B. Jonson Neptune's Triumph Wks. (Rtldg.) 639/2 That were a heavy and hard task, to satisfy expectation, who is so severe an exactress of duties. 1833J. Kenrick in Philol. Mus. II. 351 The name..more probably means ‘exactress of justice’. |
