[f. ADDRESS v. + -ER1.] One who addresses; one who sets right (obs.); one who pays addresses (obs.); the signer or deliverer of an address; the person who addresses or directs a message or letter to any one.
[1495. Addresseress is quoted.]
1681. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 100. The addressers … adjourned to the Divill tavern, and there signed the addresse.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, xvii. (1811), II. 112. It is dangerous to be laid under the sense of an obligation to an addresser’s patience.
1844. Ld. Cockburn, Jrnl., II. 86. As an addresser of the lower orders—he has no existing equal.
1881. Echo, 7 Nov., 4/6. Advt., Envelope and circular addressers.
