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vindicatrix

vindicatrix noun: a vindicatress.

Noun

vindicatrix

  1. A vindicatress.
    • But no sign of the glowering vindicatrix, the heavy-set prisoner, is yet discernible in the shiny-haired, olive-skinned schoolgirl, skipping along Morwenna Park Road to buy her mum a bag of sugar from the shop in the square.2011, Gordon Burn, Happy Like Murderers, page 130

Origin of vindicatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin vindicātrīx. By surface analysis, vindicate + -trix.

Questions about vindicatrix

What does vindicatrix mean?
Vindicatrix means a vindicatress.
What part of speech is vindicatrix?
Vindicatrix is a noun.

Words near vindicatrix in the dictionary

  1. vindicatorily
  2. vindicators
  3. vindicatory
  4. vindicatress
  5. vindicatresses
  6. vindicatrix
  7. vindices
  8. vindictive
  9. vindictive protectiveness
  10. vindictively
  11. vindictiveness

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