A female corrector; a woman who corrects or makes corrections, especially in proofreading or editing.
From 'corrector' plus '-ess' suffix (female form), following archaic English conventions of creating feminine versions of agent nouns.
Correctress is delightfully old-fashioned—it belongs to an era when languages felt compelled to specify a woman's gender for every profession, even proofreading.
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