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Webster 1913 Edition
Foundress
Found′ress
,Noun.
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foundress
FOUND'RESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
foundress
foundress
English
Noun
foundress (plural foundresses)
- A female founder.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 404:
- Francis's own unlovely tunic, and that of his female colleague Clare, foundress of parallel communities for women, are lovingly preserved and displayed by the nuns of St Clare in Assisi [...].