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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk3 As her Creatresse had in charge to her ordain'd.

1616 T. Tuke Treat. against Paintng 57 Yet is she her owne creatrisse.

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. xvii. 303 That eternall Wisdome that is the Creatress of all things.

1666 Duchess of Newcastle Observ. Exper. Philos. To Rdr. sig. b** If it add any satisfaction to you, I shall account my self a Happy Creatoress.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 345 O mighty Nature! Wife substitute of Providence! impower'd Creatress!

1778 F. Burney Let. Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 163 The all devouring Flames!—which, in consuming her[sc. the novel Evelina], would have preserved her Creatress!

1827 Westm. Rev. 7 331 (note) Luonto-Luonot, Nature, the Creatoress, Kawe's wife.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 72 Minerva too, Creatress of the olive.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Sept. 6/11 And yet, as happens so often in the case of dramatic successes, the palm remains with Mdme. Doche, the creatress of the part.

1926 Classical Jrnl. 21 604 Izanagi, the Japanese Creator, is said to have gone thither in search of Izanami, the Creatress, who had perished in giving birth to the god of fire.

1989 R. Barr Roseanne (1990) iii. xx. 200 We are worshipping the Creatress of the Heavens.

1997 Pei-Lin Yu Hungry Lightning 152 Children are being taught by the evangelists that the creatoress Kumanyí and all the Pumé spirits and deities are evil demons.