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superintendentess en · NOUN

Etymology

From superintendent + -ess.

Meanings

1. a female superintendent.
   • I was introduced to a superintendentess, if you will, and taken through the mill. 1921, Sweater News: The Journal of the Sweater and Fancy Knit Goods Trade, page 127:
   • The superintendentess' excuse was that lately there had been only one or two of us coming, sometimes none. 1977, William R. Roalfe, John Henry Wigmore: scholar and reformer, Northwestern Univ Pr:
   • At the first word she raised her to the functions of superintendentess of her household, breaking by violence, in order to bring her nearer to herself, all the rights. and disregarding the murmurs, of persons more anciently belonging to the court. 1854, Littell's Living Age, page 286:

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