The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malefactress
Malefactress \Mal`e*fac"tress\, n.
A female malefactor.
--Hawthorne.
Wiktionary
malefactress
n. A woman who violates the law or does evil.
Usage examples of "malefactress".
It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.