advocatrice

From Middle French advocatrice, from Old French advocatrice, from Medieval Latin advocatrix.

• IPA^(key): /ˈædvəkətɹɪs/

advocatrice (plural advocatrices)

1. (archaic) A female advocate.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     The emperour reioysed to him selfe, that Cinna had founde such an advocatrice.

• advocatress
• advocatrix

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “advocatrice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Middle French advocatrice, from Old French advocatrice, from Medieval Latin advocatrix.

• IPA^(key): /adˌvɔ.kaˈtriː.s(ə)/, /adˈvɔ.ka.tri.s(ə)/

advocatrice (plural advocatrices)

1. A female advocate.
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Orisoune to the Holy Virgin:

     Swich an advocatrice who can dyvyne [...] our greeves to redress.

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• English: advocatress