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Word: emancipatrix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Secretary Eden, a model diplomat, said nothing with great graciousness. More forthright, after the meeting, was Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, a stampeding emancipatrix if not yet a diplomat. She snorted: "You can't convince a diplomat. We women made an unanswerable case. A woman is far more skillful than a man at wangling another man around, and that is what you want in a diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Women's Rights | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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