Also 7 -isse. [fem. of CREATOR: See -ESS.] A female creator.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 10. As her creatresse had in charge to her ordain’d.
1616. T. Tuke, Treat. agst. Painting, 57. Yet is she her owne creatrisse.
1778. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary & Lett., Sept. The all-devouring flames … in consuming her [Evelina, the novel] would have preserved her creatress!
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 72. Minerva too, Creatress of the olive.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Sept., 6/1. And yet, as happens so often in the case of dramatic successes, the palm remains with Mdme. Doche, the creatress of the part.
