auditressn.
/ɔːdᵻˈtrɛs/, /ˈɔːdᵻtrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɔdətrəs/, /ˈɑdətrəs/ A female hearer or auditor.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor > female
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 51 Adam relating, she sole Auditress . View more context for this quotation
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 34 You, my honoured auditress.
1874 J. Payn Best of Husbands I. viii. 144 Skill in getting his somewhat cooked accounts passed by an auditress in the High Court of Love.
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