Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female tutor; an instructress; a governess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.
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- noun A
female tutor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe my aunt had been his tutoress; for it was his awe, his reverence for so superlative a Lady [I assure you!]
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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While the fond, the inconsiderate mother, with a delighted air, would cry, Why, I cannot but say, Miss Horton does credit to her tutoress!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instructions I was affectionately recommended.
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They both pleaded their bellies, and were both voted quick with child; though my tutoress was no more with child than I was.
Moll Flanders 2003
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By this and some other of my talk, my old tutoress began to understand me about what I meant by being a gentlewoman, and that I understood by it no more than to be able to get my bread by my own work; and at last she asked me whether it was not so.
Moll Flanders 2003
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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From large merchant Margaret Duncan, to innkeeper Sarah Dyer, [126] to tutoress Mary Pine, [127] to gentlewoman
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The deceased tutoress was a tranquil, smooth woman, easily nourished, as such people are, -- a quality which is inestimable in a tutor's wife, -- and so it happened that the daughter inherited enough vitality from the mother to live through childhood and infancy and fight her way towards womanhood, in spite of the tendencies she derived from her other parent.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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