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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female institutor; a foundress.
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Two of these unhappy men, however, repented of the disingenuous act into which human frailty had betrayed them; and returning to the open profession of their opinions were burned in Smithfield, to the eternal opprobrium of protestant principles and the deep disgrace of the governess and institutress of the Anglican Church.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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