Meaning of preceptress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.

archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“‘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.’”

“Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat⟳ an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.”

“She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end⟳ was violent, untimely, and criminal!”

“She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.”

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