单词 | originatress |
释义 | † originatressn. Obsolete. A female originator. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > one who originates sower1380 originalc1390 beginnerc1400 authrix?a1475 mother1560 grandmother1569 seedster1589 father-in-law1650 originator1818 originatress1840 incubator1864 originant1892 1840 E. S. Wortley Eva v. ii. 146 As having been—aye! not the accomplice only—In this dark deed of death—but more, yet more—The originatress and promoter too Of that dread crime! 1860 W. Whitman Broadway Fragm. iv. 6 The Originatress comes, The land of Paradise..the nest of birth. 1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus I. 419 The reciprocal pressure had passed to and fro so rapidly, that one could not tell whether it had an originator or an originatress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1840 |
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