administratrix
Americannoun
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administratrices
plural
Gender
What's the difference between administratrix and administrator? See -trix.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of administratrix
First recorded in 1620–30; from Medieval Latin administrātrix, feminine of administrator; see -trix
Example Sentences
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Since Colonel Green's widow could find no executed will, she sent to Texas a lawyer who asked for her appointment as administratrix of the estate at a $1,000,000 fee.
From Time Magazine Archive
This person is called the administrator, or, if a woman, the administratrix.
From Mary Erskine by Jacob Abbott
The few left on the pension-list, the poor remnants that had escaped, were they paid by his administratrix and deputy, Munny Begum?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Aunt Clay married and lived there and somehow got hold of grandfather and made him appoint her administratrix and executrix to his estate.
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed
The Leslie Bureau was founded by Mrs. Catt in 1917, as administratrix of the fortune left to her to promote the cause of suffrage by Mrs. Frank Leslie.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
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