executrix
Americannoun
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executrices,
plural
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executrixes
plural
noun
Gender
See -trix.
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Etymology
Origin of executrix
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin execūtrīx; see executor, -trix
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I served as an executrix for a neighbor and spent hundreds of hours and more than $10,000 of my own money on estate expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Young, clean-shaven, tie knotted at his throat, he even helpfully spelled the word executrix for me.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
But Valerie, who is the executrix, has been putting increasing pressure on me to gift a third of my share to Jack.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2021
Ariel is turned into a busy shaman priestess who seems as much the instigator as the executrix of Zilzi's magic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011
Joan Kay in 1525 left most of her property to her daughter the Prioress of Stixwould to found an obit there and made her executrix.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
That worthy old lady left her grand-daughters her co-heiresses and sole executrixes.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
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