dispensatrix

noun

dispensatrix

noun

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin dispēnsātrīx. By surface analysis, dispensator + -trix.

1

Archaic A female dispensator.

  • Rightly then is this divine mother called the treasure, the treasurer, and the dispensatrix of divine graces.1852, The Glories of Mary, translation of original by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, page 439:

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