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Word: dictatrix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...unthinkable because of the ideas about women prevailing among the unreconstructed Chinese. Mrs. Sun, "Mother of the Chinese Republic," gained that title exclusively as the wife of Dr. Sun and is no more likely to germinate Presidentially at Wuchang than is the widow of Lenin apt to become dictatrix of Soviet Russia, where she is respected but not obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Best of Evils | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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