rectoress
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
rectoress (plural rectoresses)
- A governess; a rectrix.
- 1605, Michael Drayton, “The First Booke of the Barons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, […], published 1613, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 13:
- Diſſembling griefe, as one that knevv not ill, / So can ſhe rule the greatneſſe of her mind, / As a moſt perfect Rectoreſſe of her vvill, / Aboue the vſuall vveakneſſe of her kind; […]
- The wife of a rector.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed, and sate over the Peerage all night
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Further reading edit
- “rectoress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.