Meaning of governoress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman employed to educate children in private households.
   nonstandard
2. A female governor.
   dated
3. The wife of a governor.
   dated

Examples

“How are the following nouns improperly formed, and what should they be? viz.—Lifes, knifes, dwarves, mischieves—boxs, churchs, dishs, fishs—enemys, flys, skys, spys—louses, mouses, oxes, pennys—arcanums, datums, erratums, phænomenons—bacheloress, benefactoress, governoress—boys books, girls dolls, childs rattle—diligence sake; Jane’s, Margaret’s, and Isabella’s mother; John’s, Peter’s, and Frank’s books.”

“[…] when the hospital established in London for sick governoresses was about to fail for want of proper management, she stepped forward and consented to be placed at its head. Derbyshire and Hampshire were exchanged for the narrow, dreary establishment in Harley street, to which she devoted all her time and fortune. While her friends missed her at assemblies, lectures, concerts, exhibitions and all the entertainments for taste and intellect with which London in its season abounds, she whose powers could have best appreciated these, was sitting beside the bed and soothing the last complaints of some poor, dying, homeless, querulous governess.”

“It took a firm governoress, boarding school and a finishing school to get rid of the rough edges — and, by her late teens, the young Princess [Alexandra] was emerging as a beautiful and serene woman.”

“I was introduced by Mrs. Onward, the Governoress, to Mrs. Sapient, the Speakeress of the House.”

“Our modern governors (even the current governoress) do not deserve to be belittled as some sort of “gubers.””

“The liberals in control now are just doing what they want. Let’s get things going and separate the states and maybe northern California might like to jump in also. We don’t even have a legal “governoress,” she just thinks she is.”

“Colonel Braddyll, soon after his marriage, was chosen governor of ⸺, in India, and Mrs. Braddyll, as governoress, or governor’s lady, was in the height of her glory.”

“That reminds me—my old mother in law was here with the Governor and Governoress of Gambia [Southorns] the other day.”

““We have strong ties to all,” said Governoress [Adele Khoury] Graham.”

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