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Definition of Directress
1. n. A woman who directs.
Definition of Directress
1. Noun. A female director ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Directress
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Medical Definition of Directress
1. A woman who directs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Directress
Literary usage of Directress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parents and Their Problems: Child Welfare in Home, School, Church and State by Mary Harmon Weeks, National Congress of Mothers (1914)
"One of the striking features of the Montessori school is the self-effacement of
the teacher, or "directress," as Dr. Montessori prefers to call her. ..."
2. Warden Cassidy on Prisons and Convicts: Remarks from Observation and by Michael John Cassidy (1897)
"... Madame Henri Hubert, the directress, received me very cordially. She went with
me to every part of her domain, in which she takes special pride; ..."
3. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1848)
"... hence love is the best directress in this matter' The subject he follows out
at greater length, and illustrates it more fully in the thirteenth chapter. ..."
4. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1907)
"Mrs. West a great mover of the Female association for relief of poor children
has declined the connection because she was not chosen directress tho' she had ..."
5. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1907)
"Mrs. West a great mover of the Female association for relief of poor children
has declined the connection because she was not chosen directress ..."
6. From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the by Amos Stevens Billingsley (1872)
"MARY B. DULLY WAS directress AND HEAD OF SANITARY DEPARTMENT — "SHE DID WHAT SHE
COULD"—Miss AMOS, OF BALTIMORE, KIND, FAITHFUL, AND TRUE—MRS. ..."
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