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plauditor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈplɔːdɪtə/ (UK)
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• /ˈplɔdətɚ/ (US)
• /ˈplɑdətɚ/ (US, cot-caught-merger)

Etymology

From plaudit + -or; perhaps with -or rather than -er due to an erroneous derivation of plaudit from a (nonexistent) Latin perfect passive participle *plauditus. Compare rare French plauditeur (“plauditor”).

Meanings

1. (rare) An individual who grants applause or praise.
   • Amongſt his wond'ring Auditors, / Who cou'd not chuſe where Wit was ſo profound, / And Vertue did ſo much abound, / But to become his faithfull Plauditors: 1688, Jane Barker, “On the ſame. A Pindarique Ode.”, in Poetical Recreations, London: Benjamin Crayle, page 54:
   • I suppose that no dramatic author ever had so large a number of unsolicited, unknown yet predetermined plauditors in the theatre, as I had on Saturday night. 1813 January 20, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “CXCIII. To His Wife.”, in “XI: A Journalist, A Lecturer, A Playwright: 1810-1813”, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge, editor, Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 2, London: William Heineman, published 1895, page 604:
   • The actress gazed lovingly at her newfound plauditors.
   • With this they indicate an artist—represented by the god Vulcan—attempting to defy the artful nature, Minerva, even though he may not succeed in full, can however create such a work that it requires only a chariot, that is the favor of patrons and plauditors, to cause it to be considered perfect. 2021 [1678], Samuel van Hoogstraten, “Clio, the Historian”, in Jaap Jacobs, transl., edited by Celeste Brusatt, Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting, or the Visible World, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, translation of Inleyding tot de hooge schole de schilderkonst (in Dutch), →ISBN, page 128:

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