[f. TITAN1 + -ESS.] A female Titan; a giantess. Also fig.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 4. So likewise did this Titanesse [Mutability] aspire Rule and dominion to her selfe to gaine.
1649. T. Ford, Ludus Fort., 82. We can find no place free from the rule of this Titanesse.
a. 1784. Phillis Wheatley, Poems (1793), 75.
| Lo! here an empress with a goddess join’d. | |
| What, shall a Titaness be deify’d? | |
| To whom the spacious earth a couch deny’d? |
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xli. Truth,… O Titaness amongst deities!
1862. B. Taylor, Home & Abr., Ser. II. II. iv. 90. St. Helene … rises grandly above all the neighboring chains…. This Titaness is robed in imperial hues.
1904. Brandes, Main Curr. 19th C. Lit., V. xii. 168. In that generation of heaven-storming Titans and Titanesses he appears a peculiarly earth-bound creature.
