单词 | superintendress |
释义 | superintendressn. Now rare (archaic in later use). A female superintendent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > superintendent > female superintendress1814 1814 in R. Southey Life Andrew Bell (1844) II. 689 The conduct of the superintendress. 1852 Ladies' Repository Dec. 447/2 ‘Poor thing!’ said the superintendress, when we had passed on...‘She has no home nor friends now.’ 1999 R. Peace tr. V. I. Maikov in N. Cornwell Gothic-Fantastic in 19th-Cent. Russ. Lit. 27 At this point his words were interrupted by the superintendress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814 |
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