Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of the French littérateur, a literary man.
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Examples
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The decisive text in favor of the term littérature comparée is C.A. Sainte-Beuve's very late article, an obituary of Ampère, in the Revue des Deux Mondes in 1868.
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968
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Actusf: You have a degree in littérature, not science.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Mr.W. A. Clouston (in litt.) calls attention to the version of this story by Addison in the “Spectator,” No. 535, Nov. 13, 1712, after Galland.
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Concerning these tales, Mr. Clouston remarks (in litt.):
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Whoever has felt the desire, not to fill up his mind, but to strengthen it, to develop his faculties and aptitudes, and generally, to enlarge his powers, will have found that there is nothing so weakening as intercourse with a so-called littérateur, on a matter of knowledge on which he has not thought at all, though he knows a thousand little facts appertaining to its history and literature.
Religion 2004
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She will allow them to grab a few morsels, but if they get too close, she flaps the big wings, does a litt le hop and off they go for a few minutes — until the give-and-take resumes.
Zelda, the Queen of Battery Park Jim Callaghan 2010
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The problem with the M-word and the rights of litt ...
ADAPT activists surround Health and Human Services building demanding better independent living services for people with disabilities BA Haller 2008
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The problem with the M-word and the rights of litt ...
Controversial new British law challenged by deaf community BA Haller 2008
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Given that the shell companies "appeared to have litt le or no business results or experience," their filings should have been carefully reviewed for evidence of possible fraud, said
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Just thinking about how “larrons” [litt. larrons = thieves] get on so well with each other at a fairground.
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