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Domina vs Domine - What's the difference?

domina | domine |

As nouns the difference between domina and domine

is that domina is dominatrix while domine is .

domina

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The head of a nunnery.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 29:
    • Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
  • A dominatrix.
  • * 1997 , Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives (page 294)
    • Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization
  • * 2004 , Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power
    • Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M

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    domine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Lord; master.
  • A clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson.
  • A West Indian fish (), of the family Trichiuridae.

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