adviseress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adviseresses
Etymology: From adviser + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: AMANDA THE ADVISERESS. Now, Amanda was the sweetest, smartest, briskest little creature alive. […] “You are so sensible, dearest Amanda,” said her kind aunt, as they gazed from the Finchley Road window, “that you really might set up an office for giving good advice.” “An excellent idea, my dear aunt and protector,” said Amanda, who was economically sewing on half a silver clock. So dear Amanda advertised, “Good advice given. One shilling for five minutes of the finest that can be had in the town.” Amanda opened an office.
ref: 1887 January 1, Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, volume IV, number 140, London, page 3, column 3:
text: A woman’s business and professional directory is shortly to be published in Boston, and for the first time will be clearly shown what progress has been made by the fair sex in encroaching in the industrial domain, which formerly was monopolized by men. Among the articles that women in Boston are engaged in making are galvanized cutlery, artificial flowers, false teeth, bungs and cotton gins. Women are also druggists, dentists, harness-makers, insurance agents, decorators, sculptors, and, of course, lawyers and physicians. One woman in Boston is a “supervisor of funerals,” another is a business “adviseress,” another is a printer and publisher, and still another an optician.
ref: 1894 September 5, “A Woman’s Business Directory”, in The Daily Picayune, volume LVIII, number 224, New Orleans, La., page 4, column 5:
text: Mrs. Lidia Hunt, the district superintendent of the cradle roll department, visited the Hyde Park A. M. E. Sunday school and organized a missionary and a cradle roll club or society. Mrs. Stella Davidson was made chief adviseress of the cradle roll department, and Mrs. Robert Hendrickson chief adviseress of the missionary society.
ref: 1914 March 7, L. W. Washington, “The Hyde Park News”, in Julius F. Taylor, editor, The Broad Ax, volume XIX, number 24, Chicago, Ill., page [2], column 2:
text: Weakly Advice. / The adviseress found the following letter in the contribution box this week: “Dear Misadviser:—Ples cant you spare a minit of your preshus time? I kneed som advice so bad. […] “Please advise me soon bee-cause I am in a awful suspense. One of yours as well as one of Wilsun’s / “ADMIRERS.” / (Reply.) My Dear Admirer:— […] Kindly follow these directions and you will find that you have not applied in vain to / THE MISADVISERESS.
ref: 1915 April 14, “Squiblets”, in The Sphinx, volume II, number 30, Centralia, Ill.: Centralia Township High School, page four, column 2:
text: Set Speeches at Durham High / I. Nancy wants the support of every member of the student body. The faculty will be here, I am sure. (Mr. Warren, in auditorium.) II. You know, I feel just like a mother to our basketball boys. (Taken from one of Miss Nancy Roberson’s numerous speeches.) III. Je ne sais pas. (The usual answer to a French question.) IV. Folks, all I want to do is to get your top-pieces to working. (Mr. Holton, adviser.) V. You girls just don’t know how much I appreciate this. (Mrs. Spence, “adviseress.”)
ref: 1929, Messenger, Durham, N.C.: Durham High School, page 141:
text: DEAR CHIEF: Will you kindly give me some much-needed advice? It is a matter of business and etiquette combined. It concerns the Hon. Dooker Pooker, whom I recently nominated vice president, candidate of the Woman’s party. In his letter to The Bin—you remember the one you requested him to write in Sanskrit?—he states that Epi Gas Tric and School Butter have failed to thank him for his services, and he adds this postscript: “Wouldn’t it be nice if the Duchess of Grandmommer de Battered would be willing to become adviseress to the inexperienced?” […] Do you not agree with me that a note of thanks is absolutely required? If so, what do you think of the following: Dear Dook: I sure thank you. It sounds grand to be called Duchess of Grandmommer after being plain Battered Grandmaw so long. I’ll sure be pleased, too, to accept the office of adviseress if you will kindly advise me where to get the advice. Yours very respectfully—Duchess of Grandmommer de Battered.
ref: 1929 September 21, Battered Grandmaw [pseudonym], “[The Coal Bin: By Henry Vance] Possibly the International Authority Can Help You Out”, in The Birmingham News, 42nd year, number 165, Birmingham, Ala., page six, column 5:
text: The best comes the last, remember that. And while remembering, look upward toward the chosen six who have guided our Sophomore steamboat through the reefs and shoals. While they are looking at the cameraman’s birdie so earnestly, I’ll whisper their names—Adviser, Mr. Rollo Mosher, Marilyn Whiteley, Bob Cowan, Adviseress Miss Katharine Rothenberger; Shirley Field and Johnny Walker. A fine bunch, aren’t we?
ref: 1939, Legend, Fort Wayne, Ind.: North Side High School, page 63:
text: It transfers its audience to Arabia in the year 950 A.D. The Oriental ruler, Emir Ackbar, has had his power weakened by his nagging Queen and her shrewish adviseress, Tifeyah.
ref: 1957 April 26, G. B. A., “Hoof ’n’ Horn Musical Comedy Repeats Tonight—‘Emir’ Pleases Audience At Duke”, in The Durham Sun, volume LXIX, number 49, Durham, N.C., pages seven—A, column 1:
text: While Prudie seemed to understand how to count the letters (“M gets one and a half counts, so does W. All the rest get one, except I and lower-case L, which get a half”), she had trouble thinking up headlines to fit the spaces she had to work with. She kept coming up with these bizarre combinations like: LINCOLN ELEVEN CRUSHES BYRNES ELEVEN ELEVEN TO NOTHING!!! and LE CERCLE FRANCAIS CELEBRATES CUISINE DE FRANCE WITH NEW ADVISERESS AT HELM / “Adviseress?” I asked, checking Prudie’s headline. “That was the only way Ah could make it fit.” “But with the M and the W and the L’s and the I’s it doesn’t fit anyway.”
ref: 1979, Ellen Conford, We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Book Services, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of advisoress.