“progenitress”的英文意思

单词

progenitress

释义

progenitress|prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtrɪs|
[f. progenitor + -ess¹.]
A female progenitor, an ancestress. Also fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §34 Her selfe a Queene, and a Progenitresse of those glorious Kings and Queenes which followed.1635Heywood Hierarch. vi. 343 Eue our first progenitresse.1883Century Mag. XXVI. 291 She was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists.1888Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 463/1 These old cookery-books seem to bring us much nearer to our dead and gone progenitresses.

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