Monitress

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmÉ’nɪtɹɪs/

Origin

From monitor + -ess.

Full definition of monitress

Noun

1. (now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.
• 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew: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.