Emancipatrix

Quick meaning: Emancipatrix is a noun meaning A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.

Meaning

A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.

Example Sentences

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix

George Sand, the wench, has paid no attention to me since I was taken ill; this emancipatrix has most outrageously maltreated my poor friend Chopin, in an awful but divinely written novel.

[…] only to be known in history as the emancipatrix of the Brazilian slaves, whose freedom she carried through with self-sacrificing courage, though she was advised that she was hazarding the reversion of her father’s crown.

^({1}) […] since Mrs. Joanna — as she chooses to style herself, though a married woman — has become the would-be emancipatrix of her sex? ^({2}) […] view to support her, besides that of proving an emancipatrix and benefactress to her sex — that there had sprung up a kind of jealousy […]

Word Forms

• emancipatrices

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include emancipatress, emancipator, emancipatee, emancipee, eliminatrix, liberatress.

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