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monitress
[ mon-i-tris ]
noun
- a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
- a girl or woman who admonishes, especially with reference to conduct.
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Gender Note
See -ess.
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of monitress1
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John read more slowly than Jean and she would patiently wait for him to nod, vigorously, as a signal that she could turn the page of “Monitress Merle” — or “Jean’s Golden Term.”
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“That I will, Adèle;” and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy monitress.
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In one of them Miss Bront� had ruled as monitress after her return from Haworth.
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Well said, my little monitress! why you are quite an orator too.
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Ah! my dear Louisa, what a loss shall I have in this venerable monitress!
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