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repudiatrix

repudiatrix noun: a female repudiator.

Noun

repudiatrix (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) A female repudiator.
    • The Boston Transcript says: […] Here is this youthful member of the common family, but fifteen years of age, for she came in in 1846, a shameless imitator of that hoary repudiatrix, the rebel State of Mississippi!1861 July 25, D. N. Richardson, editor, Daily Democrat and News, volume 6, number 239, Davenport, Iowa: Richardson, West & Co.
    • And is it not doubly singular—singularity upon singularity, so to speak—that we should have waged it?—that we, that for some seven centuries have been so far in the van of the progress of humanity, should now be as far in the rear, that the Mother of Freedom, with her Magna Charta, her Habeas...1902 August, F. A. White, “Moral of the Late War”, in The Westminster Review, volume CLVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Company. […], page 139

Questions about repudiatrix

What does repudiatrix mean?
Repudiatrix means a female repudiator.
What part of speech is repudiatrix?
Repudiatrix is a noun.

Words near repudiatrix in the dictionary

  1. repudiations
  2. repudiative
  3. repudiator
  4. repudiators
  5. repudiatory
  6. repudiatrix
  7. repuditation
  8. repuff
  9. repuffed
  10. repuffing
  11. repuffs

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