Executrix
[ɪg'zekjuːtrɪks;eg-]
Definition
(n.) A woman exercising the functions of an executor.
Edited by Lancelot
Examples
- That would be difficult, you know, Chettam, as she is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things--property, land, that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typed by Borg