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proˈductress
[f. prec.: see -ess.]
A female productor or producer. Chiefly fig.
1751Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 131 The ocean,..the container and productress of so many vegetables and animals. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio II. 419 Magna Græcia, the enviable productress of men of such vigourous and universal genius.
So † proˈductrice, † proˈductrix [from the F. and L. forms].
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxix. 150 The natiue countrie of Hercules..was the productrice of.. Epimanondas. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 125 You make this vniuersall grace the productrix of sauing grace. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1701) 419/2 Matter is the print, mother, nurse, and productrix of the third essence. |