Meanings
noundesertrice (plural desertrices)
plural desertrices · alternative desertrix
- obsoleterareA female deserter.
Cleave to a wife; but let her be a wife, let her be a meet help, a solace, not a nothing, not an adversary, not a desertrice.
1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC
Origin
- Latindēsertrīx
- Frenchdésertrice
- Englishdesertrice
From French désertrice, from Latin dēsertrīx, feminine form of desertor (“deserter”).
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