desertrice
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French désertrice, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin desertrix, feminine form of desertor (“deserter”).
Noun
desertrice (plural desertrices)
- (rare, obsolete) A female deserter.
- Milton
- 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.
- Milton
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)