Similar words: cleverness, govern, governor, governance, government, governorship, queerness, misgovernment. Meaning: ['gʌvnə(r)nɪs] n. a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home).
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31 You are very fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess.
32 Clairmont was a governess for decades, but her early life with Byron, Shelley and her stepsister, Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft), gets the most attention.
33 Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.
34 You mean you don't know anything about being a governess?
35 I'm sixteen years old and I don't need a governess.
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36 Now I have to tell you a secret. I've never been a governess before.
37 My governess, who continued to be my fast friend, had tried to obtain a pardon.
38 I had no resource, no friend, no confidant but my old governess.
39 At last my old governess came to me, with her usual assurance.
40 Readers and some critics were scandalised by the story of a young, plain governess who falls in love with her Byronic employer, unaware that he already has a mad wife incarcerated in the attic.
41 Mary Wollstonecraft, in fact, was a governess for less than a year before she turned to writing essays, children's stories, a novel and works on the education of women.
42 In Pride and Prejudice, for a woman, generally the only way to her is to get married besides being spinsterhood or governess.
43 I'm afraid you don't look very much like a governess.
44 My governess found me out a very creditable sort of man to manage it.
45 A young British woman is a governess a wealthy Argentine family.
46 So the people of the manor lived peacefully, and Lizette's governess taught her painting and piano and herbalism and manners, and her Grandfather taught her romping and riding and forestry.
47 When they came there, my governess, who had her tale ready , kept her door shut.
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