单词 | preserveress |
释义 | preserveressn. Chiefly figurative and poetic. A female preserver; a protectress.rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > one who preserves from injury or destruction > female conservatrixc1450 preservatrice1559 preserveress1569 preservatrix1650 conservatress1841 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xci. 161 If it be the preserueresse of good menne, and the reuengeresse of wicked men, it is a good discipline. 1576 J. Sanford in tr. Mirrour of Madnes Ep. Ded. sig. A2 From whence [sc. nature] all honest actions are deriued as from there foundresse, and by whom all thinges are mayntayned, as by their Preseruresse. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. vi. sig. B2 And memorie, preseruresse [1609 preserv'resse] of thinges done, Come thou, vnfold the wounds, the wracke, the wast. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 228 The true preserueresse of pure truths. a1680 N. Wanley Hist. Man (1704) lxxxiv. 364 They run out of the Town to meet her with loud Acclamations..all returning her Thanks as their Sovereign Preserveress. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland iii. 62 The ancient Finns made..Antermen, ‘the steam of the bath’, the preserveress of vigour. 1910 ‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business xviii. 236 Mr. McRamsey sighed, lost a vest button, gazed with deep gratitude upon his fair preserveress, and then recovered consciousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1569 |
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