coadjutrixn.
/kəʊəˈdʒ(j)uːtrɪks/ a. A female coadjutor or helper.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [noun] > conjoint assistance > one who > female
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1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. viii. 115 Elizabeth the chiefe agent, and her mother..her co-adjutrix.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 260 Her, who.. had with the late King been a Coadjutrix in raising it [the kingdom] to that degree of height and reputation.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. xi. 335 The coadjutrix soon replaced her instructress.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 115 The novels of Swift's coadjutrix, Mrs. Manley.
b. Christian Church. A woman appointed as assistant and successor to an abbess.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbess > [noun] > assistant and successor to
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1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. iii. x. 153 [The Abbess's] Resignation was not received but her Sister was made Co~adjutrix to her.
1813 M. A. Schimmelpenninck tr. C. Lancelot Narr. Tour Grande Chartreuse 195 This lady took her as coadjutrix in the direction of the monastery of Port Royal.
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coadjutrixship n.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbess > [noun] > office of
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1837 Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 103 Aurora of Königsmark failed of the coadjutrixship and consequent succession.
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