autocratrix

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autocratrix (plural autocratrices or autocratrixes)

  1. A female autocrat.
  2. (in particular, historical) The enlightened despot Catherine II of Russia, who reigned from 1762 to 1796 as empress and autocratrix of all the Russias.

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