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Request vs Requestress - What's the difference?

request | requestress |

As nouns the difference between request and requestress

is that request is act of (l) while requestress is (rare) a female that requests; a female requester.

As a verb request

is to express the need or desire for.

request

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act of (l).
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will marry her, sir, at your request .
  • A formal (l) requesting something.
  • of being sought after.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
  • (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • * Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
    • He gave them their request .

    Synonyms

    * (act of requesting) asking, beseech, prayer, wish * (formal message requesting something) petition, postulation * (state of being sought after) demand

    Derived terms

    * discovery request * request for admission * request for production

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to express the need or desire for
  • to ask somebody to do something

    • Synonyms

    * (to express the need or desire for ): indicate, pray, wish * (to ask somebody to do something ): ask, bespeak, call for

    Related terms

    * require * requirement * requisite

    See also

    * * (wikipedia "request")

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    *

    requestress

    English

    Noun

  • (rare) A female that requests; a female requester.
  • * 1920 : Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man , page 37 (Jarrolds)
    • It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester?—?or should I say requestress ??—?were both promptly referred to him.
  • * 1979 : Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974 , page 173 (Joseph; ISBN 0718118413, 9780718118419)
    • Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).

    Coordinate terms

    * requester