[f. AUDITOR: see -ESS.] A female hearer or auditor.
1667. Milton, P. L., VIII. 51. Adam relating, she sole auditress.
1767. Fordyce, Serm. Yng. Wom., I. i. 34. You, my honoured auditress.
1874. Payn, Best Husb., I. viii. 144. Skill in getting his somewhat cooked accounts passed by an auditress in the High Court of Love.
