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epistolary
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel" [syn: epistolatory ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epistolary \E*pis"to*la*ry\, a. [L. epistolaris, fr. epistola: cf. F. ['e]pistolaire.] Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style. Contained in letters; carried on by letters. ``Epistolary correspondence.'' ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters 2 carried on by written correspondence 3 in the manner of written correspondence n. a Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French épistolaire , from Late Latin epistolarius "of or belonging to letters," from Latin epistola "a letter, a message" (see epistle ). In Middle English as a noun (early 15c.), "book containing epistles read in the Mass," from Medieval Latin ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is an attempt to reuse the fictional form which first reached exhaustion, that of the epistolary novel. ▪ Richardsonian Principle, the, allusion to the fact that Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An epistolary ( Latin : epistolarium ) is a Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles . In the Catholic Church , it is usually used at a Solemn High Mass . Epistolary means "in the form of a letter ...
Usage examples of epistolary.
King Proetus was the delivery to your late father-in-law of a diplomatic message in epistolary form.
I was sorry to leave Betty, and I kept up an epistolary correspondence with her mother throughout the whole of my stay at St.
A player of his, a young man recently taken into the Navy, hailed from Skipperville, and the players mothers epistolary accounts of the giant who had moved to town to assume the blacksmithery of Millard Goodsell had come to Mr McKissics attention via the low route of boardinghouse gossip.
Probably in epistolary format, back-and-forth between a range of fee clients and the wretches responding to them, my novel would partake of the collision of gullibility and indifference, intensity and disdain, all of it as systematized as an assembly line, the authors of the responses as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral.