† revieweressn.
Obsolete. rare.
A female reviewer.Apparently only in the work of Thomas Carlyle.
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1830 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 1 28 To review a revieweress of two literary nations is not easy.
1840 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (ed. 2) II. 440 Should she again prove the revieweress of a reviewer, let no one undertake that matrimonial relation but Frip.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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