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单词 reformeress
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reformeressn.

Brit. /rᵻˌfɔːməˈrɛs/, /rᵻˈfɔːmərᵻs/, U.S. /rəˈfɔrm(ə)rəs/, /riˈfɔrm(ə)rəs/
Forms: see reformer n.1 and -ess suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reformer n.1, -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < reformer n.1 + -ess suffix1. Compare Middle French reformeresse woman charged with reforming other people's conduct (c1540). N.E.D. (1905) gives the stress as reˈformeress.
A female reformer.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > critical revision of text > one who
supervisor1592
overseer1597
revisor1598
reviser1604
recognizer1608
reformeress1611
reviewer1611
new-modeller1649
reformer1656
diaskeuast1822
recensor1827
recensionist1849
rewriter1854
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform > one who > female
reformeressa1843
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Emendatrice, she that correcteth..[or] reformeth;..a correctresse, reformeresse.
a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VII. 149 Holy Colette of portentous sanctity, the Reformeress of the Poor Clares.
1849 S. Coleridge Mem. & Lett. II. 234 Substantially the reformeresses must be in the right.
1946 I. Maxwell French Farce & John Heywood 146 The Reformeress examines representative citizens with the assistance of a fool.
1989 R. L. Gale Henry James Encycl. 75 James unpersuasively denied that her character was based in part on that of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the Boston reformeress and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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