procuratress
procuratress noun: a female procurator.
Noun
procuratress (plural procuratresses)
- A female procurator.
- So much may suffice for her person; there is something due to be said of her Practise, and to this part I must invite none but Mercuriallists and the Procuratresses of the Colledge of Venus, who have long desired and expected the Works and Memorialls of this Virago, as deserving a place in the...1662, “To the Reader”, in The Life and Death of M^(rs.) Mary Frith. Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse. Exactly Collected and Now Published for the Delight and Recreation of All Merry Disposed Persons....
- Consider fourthly, how here is verified the saying of the Psalme: Suscopimus Deus misericordiam tuam in medio templi tui: vve haue receiued thy mereie, ô God, in the middes of thy temple: for God the Father by the Priest, his publike Minister deliuered vs againe his onely Sonne from of the Altar of...1663, Meditations Collected and Ordered for the Vse of the English Colledge of Lisbo by the Svperiovrs of the Same Colledge, Doway: By Baltazar Bellere, page 155
- Synonyms:
- procuratrix
Examples of procuratress in a sentence
- The wily procuratress, on several pretences, declined answering the question;1820, James Hogg, “Welldean Hall”, in Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland, volume II, New York...
- Besides, there is no accommodation in the place; the judge, the curate, the bailiff and bailiff-ess, the procuratress-fiscal, and in fact all the best company, being in the country.1858 April, “The French Annuals”, in Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, number 70, page 651:
- Sister Mary Xavier, Procuratress of the Convent, thinks the roof took fire from a spark from one of the neighboring chimneys.1882 February 15, “Fell from the Roof. A Slight Fire at the Visitation Convent. Dick Sullivan, a Fireman, Falls Sixty Feet—He May...
- She organized and managed the first mission at Castle Garden for the benefit of foreign women who land there annually by thousands to be decoyed by procurators and procuratress to ruin.1901 May 7, “Purity Lecture”, in Muscatine Weekly News Tribune:
Synonyms of procuratress
Forms of procuratress
| plural | procuratresses |
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Origin of procuratress
From procurator + -ess.
Questions about procuratress
- What does procuratress mean?
- Procuratress means a female procurator.
- How do you use procuratress in a sentence?
- The wily procuratress, on several pretences, declined answering the question;
- What part of speech is procuratress?
- Procuratress is a noun.
- What is the plural of procuratress?
- The plural of procuratress is procuratresses.
Words near procuratress in the dictionary
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