† adulatressn.

Forms: 1500s adulatresse, 1700s–1800s adulatress.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adulator n., -ess suffix¹.

Etymology: < adulator n. + -ess suffix¹: see -tress suffix. Compare post-classical Latin adulatrix (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), French adulatrice (1718).

Obsolete. rare.

A female adulator. Also as a personification.

ΚΠ

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Adulatresse, or she that flattereth.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiv. 545 Indiana..wished again for the constant adulatress of her charms and endowments, and..solicited Miss Margland to be her companion.

1881 J. M. MacMahon tr. L. Brédif Polit. Eloquence Greece xi. 463 The Hellenic language..was suppressed immediately... Only rhetoric survived, babbling and varnished,..an adulatress to the powerful.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	adulatress
释义	† adulatressn. Forms: 1500s adulatresse, 1700s–1800s adulatress. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adulator n., -ess suffix¹. Etymology: < adulator n. + -ess suffix¹: see -tress suffix. Compare post-classical Latin adulatrix (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), French adulatrice (1718). Obsolete. rare. A female adulator. Also as a personification. ΚΠ 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Adulatresse, or she that flattereth. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiv. 545 Indiana..wished again for the constant adulatress of her charms and endowments, and..solicited Miss Margland to be her companion. 1881 J. M. MacMahon tr. L. Brédif Polit. Eloquence Greece xi. 463 The Hellenic language..was suppressed immediately... Only rhetoric survived, babbling and varnished,..an adulatress to the powerful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1572
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