criticess

plural criticesses

1. rareA female critic.

   Newton and Jonathan Culler, Abbie Hoffman and Geoffrey Hartman, Janis Joplin and the Beatnik criticess Susan Sontag were all engaged in the same fervid devoir of Moral Disarmament, which continues apace today.

   2001, Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 160

   4 more examples

   I sighed. “Doubtless you are right, but I will cling to ‘editor’ and ‘author,’ nevertheless, and repeat the esses only when I fear being laughed at.” / “You will regret it,” groaned my mentor. / “Well, then, will this satisfy you?” said I. “That old tyrant, Grammar, has, by the aid of editors and editresses, critics and criticesses, slain his thousands and tens of thousands of authors and authoresses, scribblers and scribbleresses.”

   1870, S. R. Wells, editor, The Phrenological Journal and Packard’s Monthly, New York: Wells, Samuel R., A Disputed Point (by Mary Haines Gilbert), page 359, column 1

   The dramatic criticess has done her work faithfully and with brilliant success. Her terse critique on the “Home of the Soul,” to which she considers a cornet accompaniment appropriate, indeed, is one of the features of the paper.

   1893–4, The Inland Printer: A Technical Journal Devoted to the Art of Printing, volume XII, page 151, column 2

   Interestingly, there was a comment of a German criticess (sp?) back in 1984 that red^([sic]) like that "recently, VH have shifted to the kind of music which doesn't qualify them to be called a rock-group anymore", Anja Boehm.

   1994 April 14, Alexey V Ghostevskikh, “Re: D.L. Roth vs. R.J. Dio, place your bets”, in soc.culture.soviet (Usenet), message-ID <1994Apr14.202151.4372@selway.umt.edu>

   “So how did you get on with the criticess?” Ostermann wanted to know as they were going up the steps to the conference hall. / “Not very well, I fear,” said Swidersky morosely. “She’s a very snobby lady.” / “You should have seen the other Russian criticess who was here last year. She kept harping on about the need to distinguish between Jews and Yids.[…]”

   2013, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, disUNITY: Selected novels by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Glagoslav Publications, →ISBN, page 103