Definition of "monitress" [mon•i•tress]

• A female mentor or advisor; a female observer. (noun)

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• "I thank Heaven, that hath taught me better thoughts than my own vanity suggested, through the medium of so kind a monitress."
• "Here is a question I received in the Q& A box that I keep in the library: As a student at Motswasele I have found that if a teacher can choose you to be the leader like monitor/ monitress student they start rumours or being jealous talking about your self."
• "She, my monitress, my guide, my counsel, gone, for ever gone! by whose advice and instructions I hoped to acquit myself tolerably in the state to which I could not avoid entering."