tutoress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of tutoress
Example Sentences
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Now, love was Miss Amelia Sedley's last tutoress, and it was amazing what progress our young lady made under that popular teacher.
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour, Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand, When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never In hostile ranks before each other stand.
From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
Here was where her tutoress had trouble, for when the girl's brain became weary or confused she relieved her baffled rage in her most natural way, the while Mrs. Ring stopped her ears and moaned.
From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel
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