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inventress|ɪnˈvɛntrɪs|
[f. inventor + -ess.]
A female inventor.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. 71 The inventresse of lawes, and the mistres of maners and discipline. 1697Dryden Alexander's Feast 162 At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame. 1744Eliza Heywood Female Spectator II. 132 The ingenious inventress of it had made them call at Rome. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. viii. 216 Chaldæa stands forth as the great parent and original inventress of Asiatic civilisation.
†b. A female finder or discoverer. Obs. rare.
1790Pennant London (1813) 614 The Holy Cross, and its inventress Helena. |