Preceptress - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |prɪˈseptrɪs|  American pronunciation of the word preceptress
Brit.  |prɪˈseptrɪs|

noun

- 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
She was my sister, my preceptress and friend; but she died--her end was violent, untimely, and criminal!
- 1896, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Madelon:
She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school.
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