Word Meanings - SUPPORTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• GRACIOUS
  1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.
• PATRONESS
  A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• GRACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being gracious.
• GRACIOUSLY
  1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden. 2. Fortunately; luckily. Chaucer.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• MALGRACIOUS
  Not graceful; displeasing. Gower.
• INGRACIOUS
  Ungracious; unkind. Holland.
• UNGRACIOUS
  1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling. Shak. 2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. Shak. 3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the
• MISGRACIOUS
  Not gracious.