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monitress|ˈmɒnɪtrɪs|
[f. monitor n. + -ess.]
1. A female monitor or admonisher.
1748Richardson Clarissa IV. 54 His divine monitress, he called me! 1813Scott Rokeby iv. xii, She..Assumes a monitress's pride, Her Redmond's dangerous sports to chide. 1859Thackeray Virgin. xvi, Harry..corrected the faulty intonation, under his English monitresses. 1897‘Ouida’ Massarenes xv. 187 It must be very annoying to have a perpetual monitress in one's own daughter.
attrib.1887Ruskin Præterita II. 422 Lady Trevelyan..became at once a monitress-friend in whom I wholly trusted.
2. In a girls' school, a pupil having special duties assigned to her (cf. monitor n. 2).
1844C. E. A. Yng. Communicant (1848) 12 As head monitress I know them both very well. 1868Regul. & Ord. Army §465 The training of School Mistresses, pupil teachers and Monitresses. 1884Cassell's Fam. Mag. Mar. 216/2 The monitress..moves towards the three culprits, and tells them,..that talking is not allowed. |