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Authoress vs Authouress - What's the difference?

authoress | authouress |

As nouns the difference between authoress and authouress

is that authoress is (dated|derogatory) a female author while authouress is .

authoress

English

Noun

(es)
  • (dated, derogatory) A female author.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1765 , month = January , title = A further Account of the celebrated German Poete?s , magazine = The Gentleman's Magazine , page = 5 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5nZIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 , passage = This ob?ervation is verified in our authore?s , who, without de?ign, without art, and without in?truction is arrived at a wonderful perfection in the art of poetry, and may be placed among?t poets of the fir?t cla?s. }}

    Synonyms

    * authouress

    Hypernyms

    * author

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    authouress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • * 1753 , Samuel Johnson] quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson , [http://books.google.com/books?id=gI8EAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=PA201 page #201:
    • The part which depends on the imagination is very well supplied, as you will find when you read the paper?; for descriptions of life, there is now a treaty almost made with an authour and an authouress ?; and the province of criticism and literature they are very desirous to assign to the commentator on Virgil.