rectoress
English
Alternative forms
- rectress
Etymology
rector + -ess
Noun
rectoress (plural rectoresses)
- A governess; a rectrix.
- 1596, Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados:
- So can she rule the greatness of her mind, As a most perfect rectoress of her will
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- The wife of a rector.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed , and sate over the Peerage all night
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References
rectoress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- crosstree, retrocess, secretors