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Webster 1913 Edition
Authoress
Au′thor-ess
,Noun.
A female author.
Glover.
☞ The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
Webster 1828 Edition
Authoress
AU'THORESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
authoress
authoress
English
Alternative forms
- authouress (archaic)
Noun
authoress (plural authoresses)
- (dated) A female author.
- 1765 January, “A further Account of the celebrated German Poeteſs”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 5:
- This obſervation is verified in our authoreſs, who, without deſign, without art, and without inſtruction is arrived at a wonderful perfection in the art of poetry, and may be placed amongſt poets of the firſt claſs.
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Translations
a female author
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