Meaning of founderess | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of foundress.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“He humbly louted in meeke lovvlineſſe, / And ſeemely vvelcome for her did prepare⟳: / For of their order⟳ ſhe vvas Patroneſſe, / Albe Chariſſa vvere their chiefeſt foundereſſe.”

“[I]n death repose, / For her, the founderess of the shrine, / That holocaust to wrath divine, / Not only error to atone, / But grateful homage for a throne!— […]”

“She [Anne Geneviève de Bourbon] was one of the early founderesses of those literary gatherings which attained such renown in the Hôtel de Rambouillet, and lavished her bounties freely among a crew of poetasters, whom she naïvely thought sublime.”

“Where is our highly honourworthy salutable spouse-founderess?”

“Their doctrines are eclectic and simple and, unlike the ministers of established schools, the founders (or more frequently the founderesses) make⟳ claim⟳ to unusual spiritual power in divination, sorcery, and faith healing.”

CEFR level