hatress

English

Etymology

From hater +‎ -ess.

Noun

hatress (plural hatresses)

  1. (archaic) A female hater.
    • 1893, The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, page 176:
      […] a man-hatress, as clever girls so often are […]
    • 1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey, page 145:
      How characteristic, again, of the man-hatress is Nausicaa's attempt to make out that in Ulyssses she had found a man to whom she really might become attached — if there were no obstacle to their union.
    • 1989, Alan Ansen, Contact Highs: Selected Poems, 1957-1987, page 142:
      Hatress of music and living and art, / Grendel's mother with a deadly drool
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