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authouress

authouress is the obsolete form of authoress.

Meaning of authoress

Noun

authoress (plural authoresses)

  1. (dated) A female author.
    • 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.1765 January, “A further Account of the celebrated German Poeteſs”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 5
    Synonyms:
    authrix

Forms of authouress

pluralauthouresses

Origin of authouress

From authour + -ess.

Questions about authouress

What is authouress the obsolete form of?
Authouress is the obsolete form of authoress.

Words near authouress in the dictionary

  1. authorships
  2. AuthorTok
  3. AuthorTube
  4. authour
  5. authoured
  6. authouress
  7. authouresses
  8. authourities
  9. authourity
  10. authourize
  11. authourized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authouress (page history and authors); authoress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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