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vindicatrix en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vindicātrīx. By surface analysis, vindicate + -trix.

Meanings

  1. A vindicatress.
    • But no sign of the glowering vindicatrix, the heavy-set prisoner, is yet discernible in the shiny-haired, olive-skinned schoolgirl, skipping along Morwenna Park Road to buy her mum a bag of sugar from the shop in the square. 2011, Gordon Burn, Happy Like Murderers, page 130: