auditress
Noun
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Noun
auditress (plural auditresses)
- (dated) A female hearer.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, lines 48-51
- Yet went she not, as not with such discourse / Delighted or not capable her ear / Of what was night: such pleasure she reserved, / Adam relating, she sole auditress
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XIV, page 253
- I have forbidden Adèle to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion; have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice:
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, lines 48-51
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