vindicatress

Noun

vindicatress (plural vindicatresses)

1. A female vindicator; a woman who vindicates.
   • When our readers have gone through this article, and have heard us declare our perfect conviction of its truth; when they have heard us say, that it is agreeable, as far as it goes, with the enquiries which we have made, when they have further heard, that the scene of the brutal transaction was in...1822, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 43, page 220
   • Had the vindicatress of the 'Rights of Women' lived in these days (fifty years later), when the iron pen is the almost universal instrument of writing, she would have bestowed upon Time a less common material for recording his doings.1854, Charles Knight, Once Upon a Time - Volume 1, page 201

   Synonyms:

   vindicatrix