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soˈlicitress ? Obs.
Also 7 solicitresse, 8 sollicitress.
[Cf. next and -ess.]
1. A female who solicits or prefers requests.
1631Mabbe Celestina x. 117, I know not..whether thou art now comming with that Solicitresse of my safety? 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 593 To disoblige his pretended Solicitress. 1788C. Smith Emmeline (1816) III. 116 She prepared to become a solicitress for favours to a statesman.
fig.1710Shaftesbury 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.
2. A female who entices to immorality.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac'c Lett. (vol. I) 270 Yet am I credibly informed, that..she is turned Solicitresse to entice others to vice. a1639W. Whately Prototypes iii. xxxix. (1640) 9 If we consider..the person of his solicitresse,..how great a patterne is he of invincible purity. |