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
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
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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