Preceptress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher. archaic
"‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’"
Example
More examples"‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’"
Etymology
From preceptor + -ess.
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