destinatories

Noun

destinatory (plural destinatories)

1. One who is the intended recipient of an action.
   • The seeing consciousness of the actual observer or destinatory behaves as a master who wants to appropriate the art object, the text. As a matter of fact, it has every reason to behave so because the first dialectics—described in the preceding section—has found its mastery: to create a text, to...1990, Ellen Spolsky, The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 95