translatoress

plural translatoresses

1. alternativeAlternative form of translatress.

   Not only did he have to sit up late at night to do translations himself, he also had to act as a kind of general referee for all the odd translators and translatoresses who were busy on the documents with only one dictionary between them.

   1993, Sibyl Crowe, Edward Corp, Our Ablest Public Servant: Sir Eyre Crowe GCB, GCMG, KCB, KCMG 1864-1925, Merlin Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 348

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   But Mrs. Kerr, with a tact and vigour equal to the translatoress of Ranke’s “History of the Popes,” has reduced Ranke’s German to most attractive and elegant English.[…]An effective protection ought to be given to the Christian Roja population of Turkey, and Servia amongst the rest, so energetically recommended by the translatoress.[…]We sincerely sympathise with the translatoress in her brief, but comprehensive preface, where she says:—[…]

   1847 August, Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, volume XI, number 44, London: Simmonds and Ward, page 498

   Therefore, on the one hand, fighting a battle for translators and for translatoresses and, on the other hand, becoming suspicious every time when verbal translation is questioned as the focus of its attention, TS is not fully assured whether to welcome Luhmann’s theory, with which even sociologists do not seem to be quite comfortable, or be content with a more palatable sociological table d’hôte.

   2012, Sergey Tyulenev, “Conclusion”, in Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies: Translation in Society (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies), Routledge, page 201