[f. LIBERATOR + -ESS.] A female liberator.
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., VI. 4. Joan … was received with the honours due to the liberatress of the town.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, xxvii. He had run over to Laura, his liberatress, to thank her for his recovered freedom.
1894. Catholic News, 12 May, 4/6. The memory of the great ‘liberatress’ belongs to all the French.
Also Liberatrice [with Fr. suffix], Liberatrix [with L. suffix], in the same sense. rare.
1820. Scott, Monast., xxix. Beneficent liberatrice.
1893. Leisure Hour, March, 343/2. The liberatrix of France.
