monitress
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmɒnɪtɹɪs/
Noun
monitress (plural monitresses)
- (now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer. [from 18th c.]
- 1820, Mary Shelley, Mathilda, 1959 edition:
- 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.]
- Angela Brazil
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
- Angela Brazil