plauditor

From plaudit +‎ -or; perhaps with -or rather than -er due to an erroneous derivation of plaudit from a (nonexistent) Latin perfect passive participle *plauditus. Compare rare French plauditeur (“plauditor”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplɔːdɪtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplɔdətɚ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈplɑdətɚ/

plauditor (plural plauditors)

1. (rare) An individual who grants applause or praise.

   The actress gazed lovingly at her newfound plauditors.

   • 1688, Jane Barker, “On the ſame. A Pindarique Ode.”, in Poetical Recreations‎^[1], London: Benjamin Crayle, page 54:

     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:

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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^[2], Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, translation of Inleyding tot de hooge schole de schilderkonst (in Dutch), →ISBN, page 128:

     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.

plauditor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of plaudō