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EXECUTRIX (executrices)
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Irregular inflected form: executrices
Dictionary entry overview: What does executrix mean?
• EXECUTRIX (noun)
The noun EXECUTRIX has 1 sense:
1. a woman executor
Familiarity information: EXECUTRIX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman executor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("executrix" is a kind of...):
executor (a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will)
Context examples
All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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