DESERTRICE NOUN a female deserter ...1645 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from deserter (n.); on the type of French feminines, e.g. actrice FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1645 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Soon after wee are bid leav Father and Mother, and cleav to a Wife, but must understand the Fathers consent withall, els not. Cleav to a Wife, but let her bee a wife, let her be a meet help, a solace, not a nothing, not an adversary, not a desertrice; can any law or command be so unreasonable as to make men cleav to calamity, to ruin, to perdition?..." From: Tetrachordon, Expositions upon the foure chiefe places in Scripture which treat of Mariage, or nullities in Mariage- John Milton
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