[f. VINDICATOR: see -ESS, and cf. OF. vindicateresse, med.L. vindicatrix.] A female vindicator.
1854. C. Knight, Once upon a Time, II. 201. Had the vindicatress of the ‘Rights of Women’ [Mary Wollstonecraft] lived in these days (fifty years later), when the iron pen is the almost universal instrument of writing, she would have bestowed upon Time a less common material for recording his doings.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 87. The Erinuës, afterwards called the Furies in a degenerated tradition, but more truly the vindicatesses of nature and the moral order.
