Epistolary

Word EPISTOLARY
Character 10
Hyphenation e pis to la ry
Pronunciations /ɪˈpɪst(ə)ˌləɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Epistolary"

What do we mean by epistolary?

Of or associated with letters or the writing of letters. adjective

Being in the form of a letter. adjective

Carried on by or composed of letters. adjective

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; familiar: as, an epistolary style.

Contained in letters; carried on by letters.

A book formerly in use in the Western Church, containing the liturgical epistles. noun

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence. adjective

Contained in letters; carried on by letters. adjective

Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters adjective

Carried on by written correspondence adjective

In the manner of written correspondence adjective

Written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence adjective

A Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.

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The word "epistolary" in example sentences

The end result, a tiny novella in epistolary form and shining a spotlight on life in ❋ Unknown (2007)

In addition, “YR, YR, YR” is humorous, is written in epistolary form (as a cover letter to editor Gardner Dozois), and is set in my home town of Fairbanks, Alaska. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Letters for the Memorable Year (1987) [34] details in epistolary form many actual experiences of the author (here called K). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then I go carefully over the columns of the weekly, clip out all the available personals and news items, about weddings, and engagements, and teas, etc., hash them up in epistolary style, forge the Windsor correspondent's nom de plume – and there's your society letter! ❋ Lucy Maud (1917)

Where we would say "testifies," the ancients in epistolary communications use the past tense. ❋ Unknown (1871)

‘We write to one another,’ said Rosa, pouting, as she recalled their epistolary differences. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"We write to one another," said Rosa, pouting, as she recalled their epistolary differences. ❋ Unknown (1870)

Of all branches of prose composition, the epistolary was the most carefully cultivated. ❋ Anne C. Lynch Botta (1853)

'We write to one another,' said Rosa, pouting, as she recalled their epistolary differences. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

And it is a poem addressed to someone who is there to read it (while the book's readers read over his shoulder) so it is of course more relaxed, and, at the same time, takes up, or I hope it does, the challenge of writing an "epistolary" poem of interest to others than the recipient of the letter. ❋ Anis Shivani (2010)

Disobedience is both lyric and initmate, a kind of epistolary flaneur's account of walking and thinking the streets of Paris--a tradition itself among American poets and impossible not to want to hear Stein's pounding on stone. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)

There is something Romantic capital R. see: Goetheabout a certain kind of epistolary relationship–throwing yourself out of your comfort zone in to the unknown. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For my point is so oddly illustrated by the old contrivance of the "epistolary" novel that I cannot omit to glance at it briefly; the kind of enhancement which is sought by the method of The Ambassadors is actually the very same as that which is sought by the method of Clarissa and Grandison. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)

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