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.

References

• “desertrice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• discreeter