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  • noun A female that invents.

Etymologies

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From the Latin inventrīx.

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Examples

  • Nicostrata Carmenta latinarum litterarum inventrix.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Tu urbes peperisti; tu inventrix legum, tu magistra morum et disciplinae fuisti: ad te confugimus, a te opem petimus. '

    Poetical Works of Akenside Mark Akenside 1745

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