Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female defender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A female defender.
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- noun
female defender .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When this little incident was mentioned to Dr. Ryerson, he richly enjoyed it, and before leaving the house, with his native gallantry, he expressed a desire to use the privileges of an old man towards the fair defendress of her country's honour, saying, naively, as we all stood, before parting in the hall, "I would like to kiss you for your patriotism?"
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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If gracious Anne was alive, she would make an admirable defendress of the new faith, and build fifty more churches for female proselytes.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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