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prosecutrixes

prosecutrixes is the plural of prosecutrix.

Meaning of prosecutrix

Noun

prosecutrix (plural prosecutrixes)

  1. A female prosecutor
    • A man, in the desperation of a refusal (common people take those things strangely to heart), had stabbed the obdurate fair one with his knife. She was herself the prosecutrix.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 183
  2. A female victim of a crime on whose behalf the state is prosecuting a suspect
    • 1893 R v Smith. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213824/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1838-39/html/r_v_smith__no_2___1839.htm
      The prosecutrix was the wife of a ticket-of-leave man, named Daniel Jackson, and she was also separated from her husband, and lived for some time with a man named...

Questions about prosecutrixes

What is prosecutrixes the plural of?
Prosecutrixes is the plural of prosecutrix.

Words near prosecutrixes in the dictionary

  1. prosecutorially
  2. prosecutors
  3. prosecutorship
  4. prosecutorships
  5. prosecutrix
  6. prosecutrixes
  7. prosed
  8. prosegment
  9. prosegments
  10. prosegregation
  11. proselike

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