glossatrix

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UK/ɡlɒˈseɪtɹɪks/

noun

A specifically female glossator.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounglossatrix (plural glossatrices)

plural glossatrices

  1. rareA specifically female glossator.

    Next, this voice, which might be termed the “glossatrix,” […]

    1988, Susan Noakes, Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 119–120, →ISBN
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    In another rapprochement to the “genre narratif bref,” the women are claiming to have knowledge about the world based on experience, handed down in an oral tradition but open to reconfirmation, qualification or refutation at any time (as shown in the interventions of the “glossatrices”).

    1997: Laura Doyle Gates, Soubz Umbrage de Passetemps: Women’s Storytelling in the Evangiles des Quenouilles, the Comptes Amoureux of Jeanne Flore and the Heptaméron, page 59 (Cérès)

    However, it is Christine’s voice as glossatrix which explicitly states that she is speaking on behalf of ‘nous crestiens’ and can thus guide the reader along a moral and spiritual path which leads beyond the limitations imposed on Othéa[.]

    2003, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Latinglossātrīx
  2. Englishglossatrix

Borrowed from Latin glossātrīx, equivalent to glossator + -trix.

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APA

glossatrix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glossatrix

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Chicago

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