torturess
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]torturess (plural torturesses)
- A female torturer.
- 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari:
- […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.
- 2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal:
- Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]
- 2005, Catherine Constable, Thinking in Images:
- The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […]