preceptress
nounEtymology
From preceptor + -ess.
- derived from praeceptor
- inherited from preceptor
Definitions
A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction
A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.
- ‘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.’
- 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.
- She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA