/ˌprɒsᵻˈkjuːtrᵻsiːz/, U.S. /ˌprɑsəˈkjutrəˌsiz/.prosecutrixn.
/ˈprɒsᵻkjuːtrɪks/, /ˌprɒsᵻˈkjuːtrɪks/, U.S. /ˈprɑsəkjuˌtrɪks//ˌprɒsᵻˈkjuːtrᵻsiːz/, U.S. /ˌprɑsəˈkjutrəˌsiz/. A female plaintiff; a woman who brings a charge against someone in a court of law.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > one who accuses of crime > prosecutor > female
prosecutrix1735
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 132 The Prosecutrix Mrs. Pickard deposed, That her House was fast shut between Ten and Eleven a Clock.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 211 Not one of them had compassion enough to attempt to molify my prosecutrix.
1812 G. D. Collinson Treat. Law Idiots I. 530 The prosecutrix stated that she was married.
1898 Daily News 21 July 8/6 The prosecutrix pestered her to ‘go on the game’, i.e. the streets.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 July 5/1 One of the prosecutrices..described in detail how she gave the prisoner at different times various sums.
1977 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 2/6 Although just short of her 14th birthday the prosecutrix was a well-developed young girl who looked older than her years.
1992 Folklore 103 16 Two hundred people assembled on successive nights before the house of the prosecutrix, exhibiting obscene effigies of herself and of her father and mother.
2005 Hindu (Nexis) 17 June Letters written by the prosecutrix to the accused and photographs of the marriage ceremony of the accused and the prosecutrix..proved clinching for the decision of the case in favour of the accused.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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