monitress
Americannoun
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a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
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a girl or woman who admonishes, especially with reference to conduct.
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of monitress
Example Sentences
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Chapter of Faults," at which the monitress is honor-bound to report all lapses observed during the past week: "In charity I accuse Sister�of the fault of doing .
From Time Magazine Archive
“That I will, Adèle;” and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy monitress.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Luckily, however, nature was a more imperative monitress, and again and again the girl had to sit down from sheer physical weakness.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
"Dorothy's jealous of Hope," piped Annie Gray, who, as monitress, was performing her duty of cleaning the blackboard.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela
Come, then, my sage little monitress, I will be a good boy, and listen to all your careful advice.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
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