Meaning & use
Authour
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An archaic or historical British spelling of 'author,' referring to the writer of a book, article, or other work.
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Eighteenth-century title pages often credited 'the authour' of a novel rather than 'the author.'
Old library catalog cards sometimes still list the authour in this older spelling.
A note on using this word
This spelling, once standard in English, fell out of use by the 19th century in favor of the simpler 'author'; today it survives mainly in reprints of historical texts.
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