legislatrix

American  

[lej-is-ley-triks] / ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪ trɪks /

Also legislatress

noun

plural

legislatrixes, legislatrices

1. a woman who is a member of a legislature.

2. a woman who makes or promulgates laws.

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Gender

See -ess, -trix.

Etymology

Origin of legislatrix

First recorded in 1670–80; legisla(tor) + -trix

Example Sentences

Isabella in Castile, Elizabeth in England, and Maria Theresa in Hungary, have, however, proved the falsity of this pretended bon-mot, attributed to Cardinal Mazarin; and at this moment we behold a legislatrix in the North as much respected as the sovereign of Greece, of Asia Minor, of Syria, and of Egypt, is disesteemed.

From Project Gutenberg

I supposed woman the legislatrix—what reason have we to say she would enact a wrong?

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The ancients, says Grotius, by giving to Ceres the epithet of Legislatrix, and to a festival celebrated in her honour the name of Thesmorphoria, insinuated that the distribution of lands produced a new kind of right; that is, the right of property different from that which results from the law of nature.

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Catholic writers represent Miriam "as a type of the Virgin Mary, being legislatrix over the Israelitish women, especially endowed with the spirit of prophecy."

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