[f. LEGISLATOR + -ESS.] A female legislator.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. II. ii. 252. See what that Country of the Mind will produce, when by the wholesom Laws of this Legislatress it has obtain’d its Liberty!
1771. H. Walpole, Lett. to C’tess Ossory (1848), I. 24. That lamb and legislatress the Czarina would suffer no patriot orations.
1846. Mrs. Gore, Eng. Char. (1852), 83. Queen Bess, that shrewdest of legislatresses.
1885. Maine, Pop. Govt., 155. Nature, a beneficent legislatress.
