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oratress|ˈɒrətrɪs|
Also 7–9 -toress.
[f. orator + -ess1.]
A female orator.
†1. A female pleader, petitioner, or plaintiff. Obs.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. ix. (1589) E ij, Because I see Loues Oratresse pleads tediouslie to thee. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. 587 Had such an Oratresse beene heard to plead For faire Polixena. 1660Charac. Italy 14 Provided the Lady Pecunia be your Suada or Oratress. 1848[see oratrix 1].
2. A female public speaker.
1595Polimanteia (1881) 58 Conceiued with teares, accented with sighes; and vttered by truethes naked oratresse. 1747Gentl. Mag. 98 (School of Rhetorick) To each fair oratress this school Its rhet'ric strong affords. 1819Moore Mem. (1853) II. 354 The oratoress gave her opinion pretty freely of the family. 1868W. Whitman Poems 83 Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls. |