plauditor

plural plauditors

1. rareAn individual who grants applause or praise.

   The actress gazed lovingly at her newfound plauditors.

   3 more examples

   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

   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