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  • noun rare A female philosopher.

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Examples

  • So Dalilah the Wily is noted to be a philosopheress.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Did you ever know such a philosopheress as I am developing into?

    Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 1896

  • -- A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.

    Phineas Redux 1873

  • That clever women abound in the present day we have undeniable proof -- many as clever, no doubt, as that famous philosopheress Madame du

    Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

  • So Dalilah the Wily is noted to be a philosopheress.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • -- A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.

    Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848

  • _philosopheress_ Madame du Châtelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman!

    Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

  • A poet doesn’t want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • She consulted her husband, who replied, "'_Henriette_' is a little philosopheress with plenty of sense.

    The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884

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