What does oratoress mean?
Oratoress means Alternative form of oratress..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of oratress..
The former Oratoress’s Oration or Speech was to Perswade us Out of our Selves, as to be That, which Nature never Intended us to be, to wit Masculine; but why should we Desire to be Masculine, since our Own Sex and Condition is far the Better?
[…];—these, with many others, make up a group of female curiosities only to be equalled by their creator’s own Winter Nosegay (a sketch with the heads of ancient ladies in place of flowers), or his “Elland Meeting” (in the most recent number of ‘Hood’s Own’), where figure among the oratoresses and the eager audience, physiognomies worthy of Hogarth himself.
Miss Ann Laughlin, the fiery democratic oratoress who is the Mary Ellen Lease of the present campaign says: “I would prefer to go to the grave an old maid than marry a G. O. P.”
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Oratoress means Alternative form of oratress..
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The former Oratoress’s Oration or Speech was to Perswade us Out of our Selves, as to be That, which Nature never Intended us to be, to wit Masculine; but why should we Desire to be Masculine, since our Own Sex and Condition is far the Better?
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