Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female hearer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female hearer.
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- noun dated A
female hearer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Dennel returned with an air not more pleased with his embassy, than her own appeared with her auditress.
Camilla 2008
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The shrinking of her auditress stopped her for a moment in her flow of words, delivered in a retrospective gloomy voice.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Her auditress listened with exceeding edification.
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If her auditress ventured now and then to put in a palliative word, she set it aside with a certain disdain.
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Looking only at this work of art, at its connexion and completeness, he dreamed not that his auditress was feeling quite a different influence; that a deep sorrow of her own was vividly awakened in her breast by these dramatic shadows.
Chapter XIV. Book IV 1917
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The gates of the girl's confidence were opened wider than they had ever been; she said things to this amiable auditress that she had not yet said to any one.
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The gates of the girl's confidence were opened wider than they had ever been; she said things to this amiable auditress that she had not yet said to any one.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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He now observed that a certain remarkable drowsiness (wholly unlike that with which the reader possibly feels himself affected) had been flung over the senses of his auditress.
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He now observed that a certain remarkable drowsiness (wholly unlike that with which the reader possibly feels himself affected) had been flung over the senses of his auditress.
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The shrinking of her auditress stopped her for a moment in her flow of words, delivered in a retrospective gloomy voice.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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