Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female who deserts.
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- noun rare, obsolete A
female deserter .
Etymologies
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Latin desertrix, feminine form of desertor ("deserter").
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Examples
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Milton's position, married to "a nothing, a desertrice, an adversary," would have recognised that theirs was one of those exceptional cases for which the law cannot provide, and would have sat down under their unhappy chance, to bear it or mitigate it as best they might.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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