advocatrice
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French advocatrice, from Old French advocatrice, from Medieval Latin advocatrix.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editadvocatrice (plural advocatrices)
- (archaic) A female advocate.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- The emperour reioysed to him selfe, that Cinna had founde such an advocatrice.
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- “advocatrice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French advocatrice, from Old French advocatrice, from Medieval Latin advocatrix.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editadvocatrice (plural advocatrices)
- A female advocate.
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Orisoune to the Holy Virgin:
- Swich an advocatrice who can dyvyne [...] our greeves to redress.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
edit- English: advocatress
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