Mrses.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I found I was to encounter a host of females—My Lady, her stepmother, and three sisters, and Mrses. and Misses without number, who of course would examine me with the most minute attention.
ref: 1787 October 30, Mary Wollstonecraft, “[The Wollstonecrafts. 1759—1791.] The Same to the Same [Everina Wollstonecraft].”, in C[harles] Kegan Paul, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, volume I, London: Henry S[amuel] King & Co., published 1876, page 185:
text: The old musty professor once thought our professional schools were safe behind their Anglo-Norman towers; but Mrses. and Misses now carry diplomas testifying to their acquisition of the degrees, M. D., L. B. and D. D.
ref: 1888 May 3, “The Girls and the Boys”, in The Helena Independent, volume XXI, number 28, Helena, Mont., page [4], columns 2–3:
text: There are other poems—“Joan of Arc”; “Jephtha’s Daughter”; many “Stanzas” and “Lines,” “Vents to the Heart,” or “Leaves from the Volume of Life,” all written with much pomp of blank verse and exclamation point by Agnes Strickland, Miss Edgarton, Miss Dodd, and other Misses and Mrses. “nameless here forevermore.”
ref: 1895, ““Our Own Percival.” [Contributed by Hudson.]”, in Henry A[ugustin] Beers, The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 185–186:
text: The women are also eligible to sign this petition and by the Mrses. and Misses on the list, it shows that the women and young ladies of Tracy, are heartily in favor of better educational conditions.
ref: 1912 March 30, “Tracy: Southern Pacific Is Planning to Get Merchandise to the Small Towns Quicker. Tracy to Be Made a General Transfer Point—Women Signing Petition for Union High School.”, in The Evening Mail, volume LXV, number 43, Stockton, Calif., page 16, column 3:
text: In Rome, in Syracuse, in Athens, in Thebes, more than two or three thousand years ago, there was the bob-haired, painted, perfumed Miss and Mrs. of to-day, and she inspired almost exactly the feelings that our painted and perfumed Misses and Mrses. inspire in the men.
ref: 1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Do Women Change?”, in Assorted Articles, London: Martin Secker, page 45:
text: If Dr. Knight will spend his vacation on our western coast and witness some of the vagaries, false teaching and some of the wild and reckless conduct of some of the so-called religious movements headed and propagated by the Rev. Misses and Mrses., he would be a stronger believer in Paul’s inspired judgment that women should not become public teachers or preachers in the churches.
ref: 1930 April 17, J. N. Bowling, “Let Them Remain in the Pews: A California Friend Takes Issue With Dr. Knight”, in The Word and Way and Central Baptist, volume LXVI, number 42, Kansas City, Mo.: The Western Baptist Publishing Company, page 7, column 3:
text: Present: Hon Albert Estopinal, President, and Mrses. John Taaffe, H. Verret and A.C. Ruiz.
ref: 1941, Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: St. Bernard Parish (St. Bernard): Series 1, Police Jury Minutes, Louisiana Historical Records Survey, page 448:
text: Inside—the Matson Misses and Mrses. who work there say of the new lounge and lunch room, “Home was never like this!”
ref: 1953 July 10, Marilyn Shirey Borst, “Matson Women Get Tied Up In Knots—Nautically Nice Ones…”, in Wilmington Press-Journal, volume 9, number 27, Wilmington, Calif., page 13:
text: Sizes For All! / JUNIORS / MISSES / MRSES. / ½ SIZES / SUPERS / TALL GIRLS
ref: 1956 April 11, Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, 89th year, number 86, Lincoln, Neb., page 16:
text: Then there are also three professors, four lieutenants, one captain, one major, three lieutenant commanders, two lieutenant colonels, six commanders, two colonels and two Mrses.
ref: 1957 December, Richard W. Willard, Robert S. Gooch, “[Class Notes] 1951”, in Technology Review, volume LX, number 2, page xxxiii, column 3:
text: Assistant Labor Secretary Debunks Familiar Myths of Misses and Mrses.
ref: 1963 September 27, The Kokomo Tribune, volume 114, number 22, Kokomo, Ind., page 7:
text: Visual recognition of marital status seems to me to be a much more obvious sign of male domination than the separation by title of the Misses from the Mrses.
ref: 1971 August 8, Harold Liston, “Sunday sundries”, in The Sunday Pantagraph, 126th year, 220th day, Bloomington–Normal, Ill., page D-2, column 4:
text: He said the state election code specifically allows county clerks and registrars of voters to register only Misters, Mrses. and Misses.
ref: 1972 February 2, “Women libbers lose a round”, in Tulare Advance-Register, volume 90, number 37, Tulare, Calif., page 6, columns 7–8:
text: Completing this incongruous mix were Messrs. and Mrses. John D. III, David, and Nelson Rockefeller.
ref: 1993, David Margolick, chapter VIII, in Undue influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 86:
text: She’d been told that he had met “the three,” Mrses. Browne, Wheeler, and Parsons.
ref: 2007, Jude Deveraux, Someone to Love, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 214:
synonyms: Mmes.
glosses: plural of Mrs.