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desertrix

desertrix is the alternative form of desertrice.

Meaning of desertrice

Noun

desertrice (plural desertrices)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A female deserter.
    • Cleave to a wife; but let her be a wife, let her be a meet help, a solace, not a nothing, not an adversary, not a desertrice.1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Forms of desertrix

pluraldesertrices

Origin of desertrix

Learned borrowing from Latin dēsertrīx. By surface analysis, desert + -trix.

Questions about desertrix

What is desertrix the alternative form of?
Desertrix is the alternative form of desertrice.

Words near desertrix in the dictionary

  1. desertophile
  2. desertophiles
  3. desertress
  4. desertrice
  5. desertrices
  6. desertrix
  7. desertrue
  8. deserts
  9. deserts the diet
  10. desertscape
  11. desertscapes

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