mentrices

Noun

mentrix (plural mentrices)

1. A female mentor.
   • Olga had indeed learned that the church had appointed certain days and seasons for fasting, but thought she had herself fasted in a fashion, she had never suspected that she was imitating Christ, and she had never been told that the oil was a necessary part of the observance. Anxious to please her...1897, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, A Russian Wild Flower: Or, The Story of a Woman in Search of a Life, City of Westminster, London: John Macqueen, page 193

   Synonyms:

   mentoress, mentress