单词 | educatress |
释义 | educatressn. Now rare. A female educator. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > female teacheressa1382 doctricea1475 instructrice?1529 doctress1549 doctrix1604 instructress1608 doctoress1626 lectoress1634 introductress1657 preceptress1712 educatress1800 1800 W. Render tr. F. Schiller Armenian I. 220 Opinion is our nurse and educatress [Ger. Erzieherin] in infancy. 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 544 This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula. 1851 Miss Masterman Antony I. i. ii. 295 The educatresses of the present day have destroyed the half of our English women in the bud, by their stiffening, starching principles. 1910 W. Hendrick Joysome Hist. Educ. (ed. 2) 7 Rebekah was an early Jewish educatress whose work has lasted to the present day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800 |
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