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preceptoress

preceptoress is the alternative form of preceptress.

Meaning of preceptress

Noun

preceptress (plural preceptresses)

  1. (archaic) A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.
    • ‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia

Forms of preceptoress

pluralpreceptoresses

Questions about preceptoress

What is preceptoress the alternative form of?
Preceptoress is the alternative form of preceptress.

Words near preceptoress in the dictionary

  1. preceptist
  2. preceptists
  3. preceptive
  4. preceptively
  5. preceptor
  6. preceptoress
  7. preceptorial
  8. preceptorially
  9. preceptorials
  10. preceptories
  11. preceptors

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