单词 | reformeress |
释义 | reformeressn. A female reformer. ΘΚΠ 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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