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protectress|prəʊˈtɛktrɪs|
Also β. 7–8 protectoress.
[f. protector + -ess.]
1. A female protector; a patroness.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 660/1 Straightly enioyning you..to worship our Lady Mary the mother of God, and our patronesse and protectresse, euermore in all aduersity. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 505 Pallas, Patronesse of Athens, and Protectresse. 1774Pennant Tour in Scot. in 1772, 297 The fair protectress of a fugitive adventurer. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer ii. 19 Athenè, the personal protectress of Achilles, of Odusseus, and of Diomed.
β1680Hickeringill Meroz Ded. 3 In making Choice of such a Protectoresse. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece iii. 285 Juno of Samos, the Protectoress of that Island. 1704Addr. Devon 3 Oct. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4066/8 A Protectoress of Your own Dominions.
b. Applied to a thing.
1615G. Sandys Trav. i. 76 Christians: whose pouerty is their onely safety and protectresse. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. v. 225 If the Papacy were inherently the protectress of humanity.
2. A female Protector or regent of a kingdom or commonwealth; also, the wife of a Protector.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1081/1 Katharine Par..was by patent made protectresse of the realme of England, when king Henrie the eight went in person to the wars of Bullongne. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 70 Ferdinand the fourth,..being but a childe when his father Sancho died, was in ward to his mother Queen Mary, his Protectresse. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) III. 125 At Norborough..the Lady Protectress, Widow Elizabeth Cromwell, after the Restoration, found a retreat.
β1653–4[see protector 2 b]. 1660Tatham Rump ii. i, She will be a Protectoress whether he be a Protector or not. |