preceptress

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher. archaic
    — ‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’

词形变化

preceptresses plural preceptoress alternative

词源

From preceptor + -ess.
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