What's the difference between satrap and satrapess?
Satrap
Definition:
(n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain continues, in effect, to turn a blind eye to Saudi’s human rights abuses, its appalling record of judicial executions, and its repression and jailing of human rights campaigners in its Bahrain satrap.
(2) With Akhmad gone, Putin had a vacancy for a Chechen satrap, and Ramzan was perfect for the role.
(3) Martin Bormann (1900-45): Hitler's party deputy and private secretary was one of the most powerful and sinister Nazi satraps, tried and condemned to death in his absence at Nuremberg.
(4) Even Britain, Washington's most loyal satrap, has let it be known that it will not be left "holding the baby" in Helmand province as others pull out.
(5) Given what we now know about how the US and its satraps have been abusing their privileged position in the global infrastructure, the idea that the western powers can be allowed to continue to control it has become untenable.