senatrix

Definitions

1. A female senator (a female member of a senate)
   rare
2. Traditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
   rare
3. The wife of a senator.
   dated, rare

Examples

“The Federal elections, for which women were entitled to stand⟳ as senatorial candidates, had come⟳ previously, though old prejudice had been too strong to the extent of many votes to grasp that a woman might really be a senatrix, and that a vote⟳ cast⟳ for her would not be wasted, still one woman candidate had polled 51,597 votes […]”

“Mrs. CARAWAY of Arkansas. Mr. President, will the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania yield⟳ to a few questions? Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. I yield⟳ to the Senatrix from Arkansas.”

“Theodora, beautiful, able, and shameless, was called the senatrix, the wife of the senator Theophylact, and the soul of that great, noble family and its dependents.”

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