ancestressn.

Brit.

/ˈansᵻstrᵻs/,

/ˈansɛstrᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈænˌsɛstrəs/

Forms: 1500s auncestrese, 1600s auncestresse, 1600s– ancestress.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ancestor n., -ess suffix¹.

Etymology: < ancestor n. + -ess suffix¹: see -tress suffix.

A female ancestor.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > female

motherOE

progenitrixc1487

progenitrice?a1505

grandmother1526

ancestress1580

foremother1582

progenitress1611

predecessrix1640

mai1845

1580 T. Norton Let. 30 Dec. in T. Wright Queen Elizabeth & her Times (1838) II. 124 An Englishe treatise..wherein her Majestie's auncestrese is termed base in contempt.

1621 J. Wilson tr. L. Lessius & F. Androzzi Treasure Vowed Chastity in Secular Persons 256 Cornelia your Auncestresse, an example of honesty and fecundity, had much ioy of the Gracchi her sonnes.

a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) i. 11 Our Ancestresses would; but we (more wise) The Ignis fatuus of Love despise.

1768 W. Cole Let. 20 July in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 150 You have two reasons to value it [sc. a print], as she is an ancestress, and as you have the original.

1796 T. Pennant Hist. Whiteford & Holywell 270 By this match his Lordship possesses..the seat and estate belonging to the family of Angharad, his distant ancestress.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. xii. 305 What if the soul of an ancestress of hers and yours were now addressing you?

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure ix. 132 The ladies of the present day..suffer much more waste in their households, than their ancestresses did.

1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence vi. 43 A conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses.

2003 New Yorker 17 Feb. 195/2 Their mother..was a minor French aristocrat with a racy ancien-régime pedigree and a noble Indian ancestress.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ancestress
释义	ancestressn. Brit. /ˈansᵻstrᵻs/, /ˈansɛstrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈænˌsɛstrəs/ Forms: 1500s auncestrese, 1600s auncestresse, 1600s– ancestress. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ancestor n., -ess suffix¹. Etymology: < ancestor n. + -ess suffix¹: see -tress suffix. A female ancestor. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > female motherOE progenitrixc1487 progenitrice?a1505 grandmother1526 ancestress1580 foremother1582 progenitress1611 predecessrix1640 mai1845 1580 T. Norton Let. 30 Dec. in T. Wright Queen Elizabeth & her Times (1838) II. 124 An Englishe treatise..wherein her Majestie's auncestrese is termed base in contempt. 1621 J. Wilson tr. L. Lessius & F. Androzzi Treasure Vowed Chastity in Secular Persons 256 Cornelia your Auncestresse, an example of honesty and fecundity, had much ioy of the Gracchi her sonnes. a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) i. 11 Our Ancestresses would; but we (more wise) The Ignis fatuus of Love despise. 1768 W. Cole Let. 20 July in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 150 You have two reasons to value it [sc. a print], as she is an ancestress, and as you have the original. 1796 T. Pennant Hist. Whiteford & Holywell 270 By this match his Lordship possesses..the seat and estate belonging to the family of Angharad, his distant ancestress. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. xii. 305 What if the soul of an ancestress of hers and yours were now addressing you? 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure ix. 132 The ladies of the present day..suffer much more waste in their households, than their ancestresses did. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence vi. 43 A conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses. 2003 New Yorker 17 Feb. 195/2 Their mother..was a minor French aristocrat with a racy ancien-régime pedigree and a noble Indian ancestress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1580
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