To that sister Lady Edgermond the second does not behave exactly in the traditionally novercal fashion, but she is scandalised by the girl's. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
Oh! may we soon blot out the reproach which that neglect has justly rendered us liable to, since we abolished the novercal government of Britain!. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.] Reference
By a pathetic fallacy their capacity to suffer is measured by their apparent power to enjoy, and those are moved to tears by the spectacle of a Dauphin surrendered to the coarse and brutal tutelage of a sans-culotte, who read without emotion of thousands of Huguenot children torn from their mothers 'arms and flung to the novercal cruelties of strangers in blood and creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
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