Crossword clues for foundress
foundress
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foundress \Found"ress\, n. A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
Wiktionary
n. A female founder.
WordNet
n. a woman founder
Usage examples of "foundress".
Madame de Maintenon received much praise and incense as the foundress of this community.
The foundress put upon it the seal of her parsimony, or, rather, of her general timidity.
The foundress presented hers, which came to no more than twenty-five thousand crowns.
Fraire Luccio, under Papal seal, on the Feast of Saint Burgundofara, foundress of the Faremoutiers, in the Year of Our Lord 1192.
Fabiola, at Rome, is the foundress of the first important hospital in that city.
Jesus Christ and that of the foundress of Christian Science are not one and the same method, although called by the name of faith they appear at first sight to the unwary to be identical.
I only had incense at high mass, and at the Magnificat, in my quality of foundress.
Then, she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.