Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
oratrix .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who makes public addresses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A female
orator
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Examples
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At that moment the eye of the panting oratress caught mine for an instant, and you and
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith Arthur Wing Pinero 1894
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But they wandered mainly in the direction of Mrs. Farrinder -- they lingered upon the serene solidity of the great oratress.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Henry James 1879
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She was made (among a thousand other things that she might have been) for a stump oratress.
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Nevertheless, Thomas continued obstinate; and, at length declared, that if the dog was not shot immediately, he himself would be his executioner — This declaration opened the flood-gates of Tabby’s eloquence, which would have shamed the first-rate oratress of Billingsgate.
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"I always told you that you ought to be an orator or an oratress or something.
Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Pauline Lester
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