† transmutressn.
Etymology: < transmuter n. + -ess suffix1.
Obsolete.
rare.
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation > female
1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus i. 76 This Tincture is a Transmutress of Bodies to a better State.
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