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legislatress|ˈlɛdʒɪsleɪtrɪs|
[f. legislator + -ess.]
A female legislator.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. ii. ii. 252 See what that Country of the Mind will produce, when by the wholesom Laws of this Legislatress it has obtain d its Liberty! 1771H. Walpole Lett. to C'tess Ossory (1848) I. 24 That lamb and legislatress the Czarina would suffer no patriot orations. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 83 Queen Bess, that shrewdest of legislatresses. 1885Maine Pop. Govt. 155 Nature, a beneficent legislatress. |