Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage French Pronounced Pron. VOL-TE-REEN [key] Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 5/16/2008 by SentimentalArgument Edited 4/26/2018 by Evil Meaning & History Feminine form of VOLTAIRE. Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was an American anarchist and feminist writer.