Meanings
nounsurvivoress (plural survivoresses)
plural survivoresses · alternative survivress
- A woman or girl who survives.
But this I will undertake, that if you are the ſurvivreſs, you ſhall be at the leaſt ten thouſand pounds the better for me.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 108
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