? Obs. Also 7 solicitresse, 8 sollicitress. [Cf. next and -ESS.]

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  1.  A female who solicits or prefers requests.

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1631.  Mabbe, Celestina, X. 117. I know not … whether thou art now comming with that Solicitresse of my safety?

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1654–66.  Earl Orrery, Parthenissa (1676), 593. To disoblige his pretended Solicitress.

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1788.  Charlotte Smith, Emmeline (1816), III. 116. She prepared to become a solicitress for favours to a statesman.

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  fig.  1710.  Shaftesbury, Charact. (1737), I. Adv. Author, III. 312. They are very powerful Sollicitresses. They never seem to importune us; tho they are ever in our eye.

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  2.  A female who entices to immorality.

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1634.  W. Tirwhyt, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (vol. I.), 270. Yet am I credibly informed, that … she is turned Solicitresse to entice others to vice.

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a. 1639.  W. Whateley, Prototypes, III. xxxix. (1640), 9. If we consider … the person of his solicitresse,… how great a patterne is he of constant and invincible purity?

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