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preceptress

preceptress noun: a female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.

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
    • Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution

preceptress meaning in Tamil and Kannada

preceptress in Tamil

குரத்தி, ஆரியை

preceptress in Kannada

ಶಿಕ್ಷಕಿ, ಬೋಧಕಿ, ಉಪದೇಶಕಿ

Examples of preceptress in a sentence

  • She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
  • She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.1896, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Madelon:

Forms of preceptress

pluralpreceptresses
alternative formpreceptoress

Origin of preceptress

From preceptor + -ess.

Questions about preceptress

What does preceptress mean?
Preceptress means a female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.
What is preceptress in Tamil?
Preceptress in Tamil is குரத்தி, ஆரியை. See Preceptress meaning in Tamil.
How do you use preceptress in a sentence?
She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
What part of speech is preceptress?
Preceptress is a noun.
What is the plural of preceptress?
The plural of preceptress is preceptresses.

Words near preceptress in the dictionary

  1. preceptorship
  2. preceptorships
  3. preceptory
  4. preceptour
  5. preceptours
  6. preceptress
  7. preceptresses
  8. precepts
  9. preceptual
  10. preceptually
  11. preceramic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preceptress (page history and authors); preceptress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preceptress (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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