1. The wife of a German Elector of the Empire.
1618. Barnevelt’s Apol., D iv. The Electoresse, and Countesse Palatine.
1703. Lond. Gaz., No. 3896/2. The Electress of Bavaria … is removed … to Ingolstad.
1798. Edgeworth, Pract. Educ., I. 292. The electoress came in with one of her daughters.
1870. Curtis, Hist. Eng., 412. George I was the son of the electress Sophia, granddaughter of James I.
2. A female elector; a woman having a vote.
1869. Spectator, 6 Nov., 1295. The electresses evidently think, even more earnestly than the electors, that [etc.].
