desertrice

English

Alternative forms

• desertrix

Etymology

From French désertrice, from Latin desertrix, feminine form of desertor (“deserter”).

Noun

desertrice (plural desertrices)

1. (rare, obsolete) A female deserter.
   • 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     Cleave to a wife; but let her be a wife, let her be a meet help, a solace, not a nothing, not an adversary, not a desertrice.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “desertrice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• discreeter