monitress
nounUK /ˈmɒnɪtɹɪs/
Etymology From monitor + -ess.
1
Archaic A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.
- Diana filled up all his heart: he felt as if by his union with her he had received a new and better soul. She was his monitress as he learned what were the true ends of life.1820, Mary Shelley, Mathilda, published 1959:
- Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
2
Dated A female monitor, or school leader.
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle: