‘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.’
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Preceptress
Synonyms for "preceptress"
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Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.
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She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
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She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.
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