English
Noun
preceptress (plural preceptresses)
- (obsolete) A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction
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1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:- Her preceptress had never found it necessary to repeat an admonition of any kind, since her arrival at years to discriminate between the right and the wrong.
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1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:- She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
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1896, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Madelon:- She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.