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单词 protectrix
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protectrixn.

Brit. /prə(ʊ)ˈtɛktrɪks/, U.S. /prəˈtɛkˌtrɪks/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin protectrix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin protectrix protectress (6th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources), feminine form corresponding to protector protector n.: see -trix suffix. Compare slightly earlier protectrice n. and later protectress n.
= protectress n.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > patronage > [noun] > patron > female
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > protector or patron > female
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c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) 57 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 257 (MED) O sterne of sternys..Of alle cristen protectrix and tutele.
c1500 W. Kennedy Poems (Schipper) iv. 9 Sancta Maria, Virgo virginum! Protectrix till all pepill penitent.
1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 39 Preiss ay to be protectrix of þe pure.
1587 R. Dudley Let. in H. Brugmans Correspondentie van R. Dudley (1931) iii. 268 They putt ye people in minde also, howe Your Majesty did refuse both the suffrainty of the countreys or to be protectrix of ye people.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Protectrice, a protectrix, or defendresse.
1647 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs viii. 112 Hecate was said to be the goddesse or protectrix of witches.
1753 Life Madam de Maintenon I. viii. 180 Madam Scaron could depend on having a powerful Protectrix in the Person of Madam de Montespan.
1794 J. Trapp tr. D. H. Stoever Life Linnæus ix. 189 (heading) The Margravine Carolina Louisa of Baden, a peculiar lover of nature and a protectrix of Linnæus.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 23 England, the mother and the protectrix of heresies.
1883 New-Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg. 37 244 The duchess was an eminent protectrix of literary men and scholars.
1979 C. E. Schorske Fin-de-Siècle Vienna ii. 43 Athena, protectrix of the polis, goddess of wisdom.
2004 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 24 Feb. 9 The reserved librarian..has suddenly transformed herself into a sharp-edged, tart-tongued, defensive protectrix of her husband's record.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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