Originatrix
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Originatrix is a noun meaning A female originator.
Meaning
A female originator.
Example Sentences
Probably we shall never know who was the real originator or originatrix of the luxury.
His fundamental thought, then, is, that voluptuousness is the origin and seat of sin; the woman its originatrix, from the pleasure she first gave and experienced in it.
Neither was Delia Bacon a German, the originatrix, if she was, of the Baconian hypothesis, of which Clarence King remarked that, the hypothesis having been established, the only remaining question was, “Who wrote Bacon?”
Last Tuesday evening our friend Miss C., the “originatrix” of the Tableau performance, at the Town Hall, received a substantial and flattering complimentary benefit at the hands of the performers and the dear people who flocked to the hall in crowds.
Synonyms for originatrix
Depending on context, synonyms include originatress.
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