correctressn.
/kəˈrɛktrᵻs/, U.S. /kəˈrɛktrəs/ A female corrector.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which > female
correctrice1548
correctress1611
correctrix1618
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Emendatrice, she that correcteth, a correcteresse.
1763 Miss Carter in Lett. w. Miss Talbot, etc. (1809) III. 81 I wish Dr. Young had been the translator, and I the correctress.
1765 Ann. Reg. 225/1 That powerful correctress Nature gave a temporary union to all parties.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1611- spermogoniferous
- spermogonium
- spermogonoid
- spermogonous
- spermolith
- spermologer
- spermologist
- spermology
- spermonucleus
- spermophile
- spermophiles
- spermophore
- spermophyte
- spermophytes
- spermophytic
- spermospore
- spermotoxin
- spermous
- spermouser
- spermousest
- spermousser
- spermoussest
- spermproducing
- sperms
- spermsecreting