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Foundress

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Found´ress
n.1.A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
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Noun1.Foundressfoundress - a woman founder
beginner, founder, founding father, father - a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"
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Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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