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单词 legislatress
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legislatressn.

Brit. /ˈlɛdʒᵻsleɪtrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈlɛdʒəˌsleɪtrᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: legislator n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < legislator n. + -ess suffix1: see -tress suffix. Compare earlier legislatrix n.
A female legislator. Cf. legislatrix n.
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society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] > woman
legislatrix1677
legislatress1709
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. ii. 68 See what that Country of the Mind will produce, when by the wholesom Laws of this Legislatress it has obtain'd its Liberty!
1771 H. Walpole Let. 23 June in Corr. (1965) XXXII. 49 That lamb and legislatress the Czarina would suffer no patriot orations.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 184 Queen Bess, that shrewdest of legislatresses.
1885 H. S. Maine Pop. Govt. 155 Nature, a beneficent legislatress.
1918 Evening Rev. (E. Liverpool, Ohio) 31 May 4/1 The lady from Montana in the House of Representatives may have a fellow legislatress in the Senate after the next elections.
1943 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 19 Feb. 4/2 You didn't necessarily have to indorse the new legislatress' conclusions to recognize the capital quality of her oratory.
1996 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 17 May 20 A certain legislatress with a penchant for criticising rampant reclamation of the harbour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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