preceptress

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(deprecated template usage) From preceptor +‎ -ess

Noun

preceptress (plural preceptresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction
    • 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution‎[1]:
      Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.
    • 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn‎[2]:
      She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
    • 1896, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Madelon‎[3]:
      She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.
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