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Definition of progenitress in English: progenitressnoun prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪtrɪs rare A female progenitor. Example sentencesExamples - By ones, twos, and threes her descendants came to mourn over their progenitress.
- The women of any clan are the progenitresses, the foremothers who should be honored along with the sires.
- The book of Ruth embraces the foreign wife, Ruth the Moabitess, and gives her the honorific role of progenitress in King David's lineage.
- We think there may have been a single progenitress - a single parasite.
- She was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists.
Synonyms female parent, materfamilias, matriarch
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