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Coadjutrix

Coadjutress \Co`ad*ju"tress\, Coadjutrix \Co`ad*ju"trix\, n. A female coadjutor or assistant.
--Holland. Smollett.

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coadjutrix

n. 1 A female coadjutor 2 An assistant (and eventual successor) to an abbess

Usage examples of "coadjutrix".

He and his coadjutrix insinuated, that the treasurer was biassed in favour of the dissenters, and even that he acted as a spy for the house of Hanover.

I have met at once an honest woman with the attractions of a scheming one, and found in this poverty an able coadjutrix to my desires.