Definition of Oratresses

1. oratress [n] - See also: oratress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oratresses

oratorian
oratorical
oratorically
oratories
oratorio
oratorios
oratorious
oratorize
oratorized
oratorizes
oratorizing
orators
oratory
oratour
oratress
oratresses (current term)
oratrices
oratrix
oratrixes
orb
orb web
orbation
orbed
orbicle
orbicles
orbicula
orbiculae
orbicular
orbicular bone
orbicular ligament

Literary usage of Oratresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"These things and more did the well-intending oratresses promise us, if only we would resign our common-sense until after election. And they honestly did not ..."

2. Unorthodox London, Or, Phases of Religious Life in the Metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies (1875)
"... surrounded by the prospective orators—one cannot say oratresses—of the evening. The object of the meeting was, as on previous occasions, that the ladies ..."

3. The Right of Secession: A Review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the by Joel Parker (1856)
"... had more to do in exciting a bitter feeling of hostility to the institution of slavery, than all the speeches of any half-dozen orators or oratresses, ..."

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