Mentress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of mentoress. alt-of, alternative

    "“Jane Addams had lived in that higher dreamland of the future, ahead of her country women, ahead even of those who assumed to be the mentress of her people, as does every noble soul that labors “to make the bounds of freedom wider yet.”"

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"“Jane Addams had lived in that higher dreamland of the future, ahead of her country women, ahead even of those who assumed to be the mentress of her people, as does every noble soul that labors “to make the bounds of freedom wider yet.”"

Etymology

From mentor + -ess.

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