rectoress noun2 •The wife of a rector.In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed, and sate over the Peerage all night — 1847 •A governess; a rectrix.Dissembling griefe, as one that knevv not ill, / So can she rule the greatnesse of her mind, / As a most perfect Rectoresse of her vvill, / Aboue the vsuall vveaknesse of her kind; […] — 1605 formsrectoresses
