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‖ progenitrix|prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtrɪks|
[a. late L. prōgenitrix an ancestress.]
= prec. † Also with French ending, ‖ progeniˈtrice. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 111 [His grandmother] set for any progenitrix, as is often used. 1650Bp. Hall Cases Consc., Add. i. (1654) 387 The gracious progenitrice of the Saviour of the world. 1798Hull Advertiser 13 Oct. 4/4 There is now living at Allonby..a widow..who is the progenitrix of fifty eight persons. 1864Realm 9 Mar. 5 In this young woman, lean, yellow, shrewd and hard, we have the type and progenitrix of the strong-minded Yankee female face, with its keen angularity. |