[f. FORNICATOR + -ESS1. Cf. OF. fornicateresse.] A woman addicted to or guilty of fornication.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 160. Those that haue been dayly fornicatresses and yet are vnfruitfull, hee shall accuse of ten thousand murders, by confusion of seeds, and barrayning their wombes by drugges.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., II. ii. 23. See you the Fornicatresse be remou’d.
1611. Ainsworth, Annot. Pentat., Deut. xxiii. 17. Common whore, fornicatresse, Sodomitesse; one that maried not, but lived in whoredome.
