Definition of "protectress" [pro•tect•ress]

• A female protector. (noun)

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• "Romans had degenerated to a nation of cowherds, than the popes, in accordance with their full conviction that the Church was the first-called protectress and patroness of art, devoted their attention to the preservation of the ancient objects of art."
• "People were wonderfully polite in those days, and Locke himself wrote to his "protectress" a charming letter in which he told her that her "_Defence_ was the greatest honour my Essay could have procured me.""
• "The nickname "Kali" also has a great ring to it, and it means protectress and beautiful, depending on the language."