Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female guardian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A female guardian; a tutoress.

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  • noun obsolete a female tutor

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Examples

  • So, I backtracked to the Radcliffe Infirmary and found that yes, indeed, ‘dear Dorothy’ had spent some hours with Miss Constance Lessingham, her onetime tutrix and lifelong friend.

    The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

  • So, I backtracked to the Radcliffe Infirmary and found that yes, indeed, ‘dear Dorothy’ had spent some hours with Miss Constance Lessingham, her onetime tutrix and lifelong friend.

    A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

  • Moreover we have ascertained the fact that a tutrix may subsequently marry, and that act does not prevent her from filling the office of tutrix, neither does the fact of being already married prevent her from discharging the duties of tutrix.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • She next demolifhed Wark, and then returning to Edinburg, called a parliament; which, after fome altercation, conftituted her the king's tutrix.

    A new history of Scotland, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1770

  • Not for me the tugs and pulls of Right Action, the flattery of being Margery’s personal tutrix, the courtly intrigue of the Inner Circle, the plotting and animosity of Marie.

    A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

  • Not for me the tugs and pulls of Right Action, the flattery of being Margery’s personal tutrix, the courtly intrigue of the Inner Circle, the plotting and animosity of Marie.

    A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

  • Not for me the tugs and pulls of Right Action, the flattery of being Margery’s personal tutrix, the courtly intrigue of the Inner Circle, the plotting and animosity of Marie.

    A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

  • n Inre obscura melius est favere repetitioni quam aduentitio tutrix I* 50.

    The Institutes of Justinian 1812

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