emancipatrix
UK/ɛˈmænsɪpeɪtɹɪks/
emancipatrix noun: a woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
Noun
emancipatrix (plural emancipatrices)
- A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- Christianity shall yet emerge from the tents of Mesech and the tabernacles of Kedar, leaving behind her the scenes of her bondage, and put on her coronation robes, and move by universal love to universal empire, the emancipatrix of the oppressed — the ambassadress of heaven — the benefactress of...1845, Protestant association, The Protestant magazine, “Speech of the Rev. Dr. Cumming”, page 216
- 1869, Standish Grove Grady and William Hay Macnaghten, A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract, Comprising the Doctrines of the Soonee and Sheea Schools, and Based Upon the Text of Sir W. H. Macnaghten’s Principles and Precedents, Together with the Decisions of the Privy Council...
Forms of emancipatrix
| plural | emancipatrices |
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Origin of emancipatrix
From Latin ēmancipātrīx. By surface analysis, emancipate + -trix.
Questions about emancipatrix
- What does emancipatrix mean?
- Emancipatrix means a woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- What part of speech is emancipatrix?
- Emancipatrix is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emancipatrix?
- Emancipatrix is pronounced /ɛˈmænsɪpeɪtɹɪks/ (UK).
- What is the plural of emancipatrix?
- The plural of emancipatrix is emancipatrices.
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