inventor
noun
a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
inventress
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a word derived from
inventor.
Example Sentences
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Since then, Miss Maggie Knight, the inventress of the machine above mentioned, has found out another; namely for folding paper-bags.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler
That she was the true inventress is recorded on her tomb.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg
Cecilia: the patron-saint of music, and the reputed inventress of the organ.
From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
Catherine de Medicis, the personage said to have prompted the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew's day at Paris, is commonly regarded as the inventress of snuff-taking.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci
