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monitress en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɒnɪtɹɪs/ (UK)

Etymology

From monitor + -ess.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.
   • Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration. 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
   • Diana filled up all his heart: he felt as if by his union with her he had received a new and better soul. She was his monitress as he learned what were the true ends of life. 1820, Mary Shelley, Mathilda, published 1959:
2. (dated) A female monitor, or school leader.
   • Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games. 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle:

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