Meanings
plural senatrices
- rareA female senator (a female member of a senate)
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The Federal elections, for which women were entitled to stand as senatorial candidates, had come previously, though old prejudice had been too strong to the extent of many votes to grasp that a woman might really be a senatrix, and that a vote cast for her would not be wasted, still one woman candidate had polled 51,597 votes […]
2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and DawnSynonyms: senatress
- rareTraditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
Mrs. CARAWAY of Arkansas. Mr. President, will the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania yield to a few questions? Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. I yield to the Senatrix from Arkansas.
1934, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congressional Record-Senate - datedrareThe wife of a senator.
Theodora, beautiful, able, and shameless, was called the senatrix, the wife of the senator Theophylact, and the soul of that great, noble family and its dependents.
1897, George Herbert Dryer, History of the Christian Church
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female senator (a female member of a senate)
Origin
- Latinsenātrīx
- Englishsenatrix
Learned borrowing from Latin senātrīx. By surface analysis, senator + -trix.
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