"testamentrix" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|!}} testamentrix (plural not attested)
  1. (rare) A female testamentor. Tags: no-plural, rare
    Sense id: en-testamentrix-en-noun-iaa80hHh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns with unattested plurals

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          "ref": "1702, “An Latter Will and Teſtament”, in A Compend or Abreviat of the most important Ordinary Securities of, and concerning. Rights Personal and Real, Redeemable and Irredeemable; of common Use in Scotland. […], Edinburgh: […] the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, […], page 250",
          "text": "[…]make nominat and conſtitute the ſaid W. my Spouſe to be ſole Tutrix & Teſtamentrix during her Widowity allennerly to my ſaid Daughter, for guiding and governing her perſon and Eſtate during her Pupillarity, and failing of her by Marriage or Death, I nominat and appoint F. G. H. I. K. and L. or any three of them who ſhall accept, the ſaid F. alwiſe being one during his Lifetime to be her Tutors as ſaid is.",
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          "ref": "1909 June 2, “Three Wills Probated”, in The Times-Democrat, volume 46, number 18,674, New Orleans, La., page 12, column 4",
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          "ref": "1995, La solidaridad, page 207, column 1",
          "text": "On April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra died, married to Doña Catalina Salazar, Leon street: he received the sacraments from the Licentiate Francisco Lopez; he asked that he be buried in [the convent of] the Trinitarian nuns; he ordered two requiem masses said and the rest at the will of his wife, who is testamentrix, and the Licentiate Francisco Nuñez who lives there.",
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