playactor

Noun

1. Alternative form of play-actor.
   • It is the oldest of saws that every great orator, whether secular or ecclesiastical, has in him many of the attributes of a playactor, and no one can have listened to the most successful of American preachers — Mr....
   • "It's the playactor!" cried he, slashing at my cudgel. - 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
   • He is Gāṅgo the playactor ("nata"). The stories connected with him, his son Jaya, also a playactor ("Jayanata), and the latter's wife Vidyutprabhā are probably baseless pleasantry. - 1963, Sukumar Sen Halāyudhamiśra,...