vindicatrix
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vindicatrix; equivalent to vindicate + -trix.
Noun
editvindicatrix
- A vindicatress.
- 2011, Gordon Burn, Happy Like Murderers, page 130:
- But no sign of the glowering vindicatrix, the heavy-set prisoner, is yet discernible in the shiny-haired, olive-skinned schoolgirl, skipping along Morwenna Park Road to buy her mum a bag of sugar from the shop in the square.