actrix
A female plaintiff.
Noun
- A female plaintiff.
- Wife Elizabeth, whole estate, including gold, silver, jewels, etc., and to be executrix and “universal actrix,” to bring up the children until they will be fit for trades. - 1918, Documents Relating to the Colonial,...
- Thirdly, the actrix in her own testimony did not so much allege ignorance but rather showed that she abhorred the notion of sexual relations and had a positive will opposed to its fulfillment. - 1935, John Joseph...
- Compare Marrays c. Rowcliff where the annotator has written the age of the actrix in the margin every time a witness answered the question about her age, […] - 2000, Frederik Pedersen, Marriage disputes in medieval...
Origin
From Latin āctrīx (“female plaintiff”). By surface analysis, actor + -trix. Doublet of actrice.