originatrix
originatrix noun: a female originator.
Noun
originatrix (plural not attested)
- A female originator.
- Last Tuesday evening our friend Miss C., the “originatrix” of the Tableau performance, at the Town Hall, received a substantial and flattering complimentary benefit at the hands of the performers and the dear people who flocked to the hall in crowds.1854 September 16, Tom Muddie, “The Benefit Levee”, in The Quincy Patriot
- His fundamental thought, then, is, that voluptuousness is the origin and seat of sin; the woman its originatrix, from the pleasure she first gave and experienced in it.1862, John J[oseph] I[gnaz] Döllinger, translated by N[icholas] Darnell, The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ: An Introduction to the History of Christianity, volume II...
- Synonyms:
- originatress
Examples of originatrix in a sentence
- Probably we shall never know who was the real originator or originatrix of the luxury.1866 June 16, Cuthbert Bede [pen name; Edward Bradley], ““The Hero of Stilton;” and Stilton Cheese”, in “Once a Week,” an Illustrated...
- These sounds Darley interprets as Memnon’s yearning matin song to his mother Aurora, generative and diurnal originatrix.1978, Leslie Brisman, Romantic Origins, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 217:
- I have singled out one of them, the originatrix of the other two and instigatrix of most of the fun, in the dedication.1992, Jerome Mandel, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the Canterbury Tales, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press...
- This definition, relying upon innate feeling for the music, accords with Plato's divine intuition:—the divinity here the Muse, the originatrix of the music.2009, David A. Ross, The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 212:
Synonyms of originatrix
Questions about originatrix
- What does originatrix mean?
- Originatrix means a female originator.
- How do you use originatrix in a sentence?
- Probably we shall never know who was the real originator or originatrix of the luxury.
- What part of speech is originatrix?
- Originatrix is a noun.
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