Meaning of commentatrix | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of commentator.

feminine, form-of, no-plural

Examples

“Well! Having thus luckily got rid of one, to whose Strength or Truth I was on the Verge of yielding, I return to my Office of Commentatrix. You muſt know, Dear Harriot, that this laſt crabbed Word ſticks in my Throat. I am not ſure that the Word Commentator may be changed like Executor; and I dare not ask for fear of betraying myſelf. I hope D—ds—y will look to theſe literal Errors, he being the only one of the Trade I can venture to truſt.”

“No woman, however, united the power of pursuing dissipation and study at the same time, with so much success; and beholders saw with astonishment the commentatrix of Newton, after leaving a card-table, instruct, and converse with the learned and the gay.”

“That aged commentatrix on lovers’ claims was more than purblind—and yet the young girl felt confused as she attempted to divert Dame Hickson’s notice from herself.”

““[…]Her commentary is generally considered as a performance highly creditable to the female intellect, but as showing a good deal the author’s intellectual petticoats.” We may add that she frequently betrays too strong a bias in favour of the claims of her own sex. Some further information as to this commentatrix is to be found at page 359 of Messrs. West and Bühler’s work, Bk. I.[…]The passage, when purged of the interpolations obtained from the commentatrix Bálambhaṭṭa, runs thus:[…]”

“COMMENTATRIX / Miss Thompson has a way with her words and wits, which is surely if slowly catching on with the more cogitatious of listeners. Cigaret-sponsored, Miss Thompson (really Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) is heard each Friday at 9:45 WMAQ.”

“Vyvyan Donner, Fox Movietone newsreel commentatrix who follows the horserace shots, which follow the political speech shots, which follow the disaster scenes, will do the announcing of the lavish spectacle for Movietone.”

““If M.P.s,” declared the new political commentatrix, “can’t find anything else except Debbery for question time, then the nation is in a bad way.””

“If Dr Anderson is a high priest of access, then Ms Wheen, itinerant commentatrix of the arts, is, if not exactly a high priestess, a pretty high-up vestal virgin.”

“Fashion will, of course, be a crucial ingredient, with “stunning” once again going off even-money favourite as the adjective most likely to be over-used by the BBC’s chosen commentatrix.”

“Ever since, I’ve been barraged by counter-claims: Internet pundit Jeff Jarvis says it’s his idea; the leggy lovely commentatrix Ann Coulter, of Politically Incorrect, CNN et al. mentioned it in a November column;”

“Last October, urging Congress to get tough on the obvious suspects, the leggy blonde commentatrix Coulter declared, ‘Americans aren’t going to die for political correctness.’ They already have.”

“The best response to this line of thinking was by the shrewd Internet commentatrix Megan McArdle: “They’re completely missing the point, which is that it’s hilarious.””

“For as commentatrix Ann Coulter said—in touch, as always, with her inner terrorist and fearlessly voicing all conservatives’ guilty thoughts:[…]”

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