monitress
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]monitress (plural monitresses)
- (now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer. [from 18th c.]
- 1820, Mary Shelley, Mathilda, published 1959:
- Diana filled up all his heart: he felt as if by his union with her he had received a new and better soul. She was his monitress as he learned what were the true ends of life.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.
- (dated) A female monitor, or school leader. [from 18th c.]
- 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle:
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.