vindicatrix

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin vindicatrix; equivalent to vindicate +‎ -trix.

Noun

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vindicatrix

  1. A vindicatress.
    • 2011, Gordon Burn, Happy Like Murderers, page 130:
      But no sign of the glowering vindicatrix, the heavy-set prisoner, is yet discernible in the shiny-haired, olive-skinned schoolgirl, skipping along Morwenna Park Road to buy her mum a bag of sugar from the shop in the square.