Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.
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- noun A
female conservator .
Etymologies
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Latin cōnservātrīx.
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Examples
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Larga prudenter, conservatrix thesaurorum ultra fæmineum modum.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824
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All these faculties then constitute the vis fabricatrix, and the vis conservatrix, as well as the vis medicatrix of nature, so much spoken of, but so little understood by philosophers.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Bizarro right-wing conservatrix Michelle Malkin made it official: She is not PC.
Gawker 2009
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