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institutress|ˈɪnstɪtjuːtrɪs|
[f. prec., or instituter + -ess.]
A female institutor.
1786Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 141/2 That regulation or compact of which the empress had been institutress. 1827Archæol. XXI. 549 The Queen was then lying in state..at the Convent at Chaillot near Paris, of which she had been the Institutress and Patroness. 1829Southey Sir. T. More II. 305 An institutress who devotes..her life to this generous purpose. |