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Meanings of man of letters in English
Person who works on literature.
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Examples for "literary"
Examples for "literary"
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Similarly you could consider literary sector as part of the 'comics industry'.
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This simple fact is, of course, the basis of all literary education.
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It points the way toward the literary future, as those things do.
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His literary views and topics still remain a relevant in today's society.
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The questions given for debate may be discussed by the literary society.
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The most terrible of all things is a German aesthetic litterateur.
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A litterateur cannot understand me; only a complete man or a true artist can.
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He was the first litterateur who ever paid attention to me as a poet.
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But he is an editor as well as a litterateur.
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Another view was held by Don Isaac Abarbanel, the famous Jewish statesman and litterateur.
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Gorky for a Russian literator, Maruki a photographer of Shibaku, and komeno-naruki (rice) a life-giver, eh?
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"Goruki sounds like the name of a Russian literator," said Red Shirt.
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"Yes, just like a Russian literator," Clown at once seconded Red Shirt.
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He is a novelist, story writer, dramatist and literary scholar.
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A well-known literary scholar who died recently was thus described by one of his former students:
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In 1958 she married the literary scholar Jonathan Wordsworth, the great-great-great nephew of the poet William Wordsworth.
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That Dad is a literary scholar, currently working on an appreciation of Ted Hughes, is not lost on him.
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No, these supposed literary scholars were obviously quite incapable of reading between the lines.
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The priest departs, the divine literatus comes.
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As the world's premier woman of letters, she is a living legend.
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If anyone exemplifies the 21st-century woman of letters it's Lydia Davis.
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No one was ever less consciously a woman of letters.
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Ah, well, you're the woman of letters, Miss Faithfull.
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A woman of letters, perhaps?
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We are hunters again, trappers, adventurers bold, while we study you, and the blithe barbarian wakens even in the weary person of letters.
Usage of man of letters in English
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He is the foremost man of letters in this country by far.
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The agriculturist talks constantly of bullocks-theman of letters constantly of books.
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Those long lines announced the man of letters, the writer, the workman.
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The manager started to speak, but the man of letters anticipated him.
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Gissing's career as a man of letters was the product of this.
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No man of letters was ever more devoted to exercise and sport.
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This angelick counsel every man of letters should always have before him.
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Never had any man of letters to go through a severer ordeal.
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Before coming to Belgium he had become a distinguished man of letters.
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I am literally a man of letters, for I have seventeen degrees.
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The King's habits of life those of a man of letters 402
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I was considered as a man of letters, who wrote for amusement.
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He was no longer a magistrate, but only a man of letters.
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That, and that alone, is good business for a man of letters.
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Maupertuis enjoyed as much of Frederic's goodwill as any man of letters.
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November 26th, Lord Nugent, a celebrated politician, poet, and man of letters.