Feminism seems to me its next of kin; still we may not call the woman who assails the soap boxes--even those that antic about the White House gates--by the opprobrious terms of adventuress.

Where such a one is not a lunatic she is a nuisance.

There are women and women.
We may leave out of account the shady ladies of history.

Neither Aspasia nor Lucrezia Borgia nor the Marquise de Brinvilliers could with accuracy be called an adventuress.

The term is of later date.