Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female author, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female author.
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- noun dated A
female author .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman author
Etymologies
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Examples
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In her description of places our authoress is equally reticent, and yet with what consummate power she places them before our eyes!
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"At the house of the new lady-author -- I hate the word authoress -- Mademoiselle Cicogna!
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Hack_, favourably known as the authoress of several useful and highly interesting works for children.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various
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The authoress was a very able woman, who had travelled much and mixed in cultured society wherever she had been; her book was highly reviewed by various English Magazines.
Is Ulster Right? Anonymous
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This was M.ss M. Betham-Edwards, who was already well known as the authoress of "A Winter with the Swallows," and whose travel
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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The authoress was a large person with rich orange-coloured hair, powdered cheeks, and darkened eyelashes.
The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902
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We were delighted when Maria Gertrude Kyle took a seat in our barouche on my mother's invitation, and she was well known as authoress and poetess, in our few Georgia papers.
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The authoress was the daughter of Lyman Beecher, who had seven sons and four daughters, each one of whom was either a preacher or reformer in some field.
The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Newell Dwight Hillis 1893
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A daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Miss Sarah Nicholas Randolph, is favorably known as the authoress of Home Reminiscences of Thomas Jefferson, and other works of merit.
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Born at Salem, Mass., was well-known as the authoress of
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