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protectoress

protectoress is the alternative form of protectress.

Meaning of protectress

Noun

protectress (plural protectresses)

  1. A female protector.
    • But consider, whether in the sacred promise to be not only a protectress, but a mother to this poor child, your purpose may meet the wishes of the noble knight your husband.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John...
    Synonyms:
    protectrix

Forms of protectoress

pluralprotectoresses

Questions about protectoress

What is protectoress the alternative form of?
Protectoress is the alternative form of protectress.

Words near protectoress in the dictionary

  1. protector
  2. protectoral
  3. protectorate
  4. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  5. protectorates
  6. protectoress
  7. protectorial
  8. protectorian
  9. protectorians
  10. protectories
  11. protectorless

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