Actress
['æktrɪs]
Definition
(n.) A female actor or doer.
(n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
Checker: Patty
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see in your dreams an actress, denotes that your present state will be one of unbroken pleasure and favor. To see one in distress, you will gladly contribute your means and influence to raise a friend from misfortune and indebtedness. If you think yourself one, you will have to work for subsistence, but your labors will be pleasantly attended. If you dream of being in love with one, your inclination and talent will be allied with pleasure and opposed to downright toil. To see a dead actor, or actress, your good luck will be overwhelmed in violent and insubordinate misery. To see them wandering and penniless, foretells that your affairs will undergo a change from promise to threatenings of failure. To those enjoying domestic comforts, it is a warning of revolution and faithless vows. For a young woman to dream that she is engaged to an actor, or about to marry one, foretells that her fancy will bring remorse after the glamor of pleasure has vanished. If a man dreams that he is sporting with an actress, it foretells that private broils with his wife, or sweetheart, will make him more misery than enjoyment.
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Examples
- I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he remembered seeing me at one of the minor theaters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Lydgate was in love with this actress, as a man is in love with a woman whom he never expects to speak to. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards, said Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A popular actress had entered her name on the ship's books, but something interfered and she couldn't go. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I think it's awfully good fun myself--some of the artistic set, you know, any pretty actress that's going, and so on. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But, you know, I have been trained as an actress myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a few terse phrases he told me his opinion of, and feeling towards, the actress: he judged her as a womannot an artist: it was a branding judgment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was, indeed, a Feast of Reason in the cathedral of Notre-Dame, with a pretty actress as the goddess of Reason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She stepped aside when Mrs. Rougemont the actress passed with her dubious family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress by profession. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What a splendid actress and manager! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have seen good actresses fail in the part. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There are some pretty French actresses at Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Luke