tutoress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of tutoress
Example Sentences
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Here was where her tutoress had trouble, for when the girl's brain became weary or confused she relieved her baffled rage in her most natural way, the while Mrs. Ring stopped her ears and moaned.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instruction I was affectionately recommended.
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland
She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour, Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand, When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never In hostile ranks before each other stand.
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
Pa and Ma and Allie Briskow and the tutoress have gone to the mountains—Ma's beloved mountains—and they appear to be living up to her expectations.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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