grammarianess

plural grammarianesses

1. datedrareA female grammarian.

   It’s easy (and confusing) to genderize something with some s’s. First we have have grammarians, now we needlessly have grammarianesses.

   [2022 December 7, u/NOVAbuddy, “ENBY word for witch/wizard”, in r/enby (Reddit post), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022

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   Αναγαλλὶς, ἡ Κερκυραια γραμματικη, ἥτις την της σφαιρας ἑυρεσιν Ναυσικαᾳ τη Αλκινοȣ θυγατρι ανατιθησιν. Thus the Lexicographer; who probably thought as little, as the Corcyræan Grammarianeſs, of decorating the princeſs Nauſicaa with the ſame of aſtronomical inventions. […] That is, “The Dances, that are mentioned by Homer, are ſome thoſe of tumblers; others, with a ball; the invention of which kind of dance, Agallis, the Corcyræan grammarianeſs, aſcribes to Nauſicaa, in compliment to her country-woman.[…]”

   All the Extant Works of Isaac Newton. […]

   1785, Samuel Horsley, “Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks”, in Isaaci Newtoni Opera Quæ Exstant Omnia. […] [All the Extant Works of Isaac Newton. […]], volume V, London: […] Joannes Nichols, →OCLC, “The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended” section, footnote 6, page 65

   “[…] The author of that poem—Miss White I think you called her—bids fair to become known as a poet.” “We think the authoress will become celebrated as a poetess,” remarked the young lady pertly, with marked emphasis on two words of the sentence. […] “[…] And in the department of music, few can equal Miss Kellogg as a singeress. […] Mary, I understand, has turned her attention to painting and the drama, and will surely become famous as an actress, and even now as a lecturess.” A loud slamming of the door caused the old gentleman to look up, and the criticess and grammarianess was gone!

   1873 February 19, “Ess and Esses”, in Geo[rge] G. Washburn, editor, The Elyria Independent Democrat, volume XXI, number 23 (1,073 overall), Elyria, Oh.: Geo. G. Washburn, →OCLC, front page, column 6

   Perhaps I should go even farther, and express my unlimited admiration for these Chico schoolmarms who so boldly affirm the grammarhood of the English language in defiance of the highest authorities to the contrary. It would be heartless and cruel to shatter the fond illusion that these grammarianesses of Chico hug so lovingly to their tender breasts by asking them to cite some “rule” whereby I, for specific example, may be guided in the use of that dear old verb “loved” in the imperfect participle passive.

   1908 December 12, “An Outcry From Chico”, in Theodore F[irmin] Bonnet, editor, Town Talk: The Pacific Weekly, volume XVII, number 850, San Francisco, Calif.: Town Talk Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 15, column 1

   For instance, though we now confess our sex for the first time, it is not the fear of the sneer from the reader and readeress that has labeled this column so much as a certain apathy toward the word “Grammarianess.”

   [1937 May, “The Grammarian’s Corner”, in A. N. Bowler, editor, The Writer, volume 50, number 5, Boston, Mass.: The Writer, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 175, column 1

   Qu’une moniale étudie et pousse loin son instruction, c’est assez naturel, qu’elle devienne « théologienne » après avoir été « grammairienne », comme l’écrira plus tard Gertrude de Helfta, il n’y a pas là de quoi s’étonner.

   1973 [1970], Régine Pernoud, translated by Peter Wiles, “Heloise”, in Heloise and Abelard, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →ISBN, page 46