Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to an author (of books). Also autorial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an author.

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  • adjective of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or by or typical of an author

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Examples

  • And that is what you seem to mean by the term authorial intention.

    Concept of the unified text 2009

  • I'm a bit surprised by how interested in authorial intentionality people are; I posted "Intentionally Omitted" primarily to clarify what Drout, Hodges and I were dancing around for the One Ringers.

    Intention: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It? Richard Nokes 2005

  • I'm a bit surprised by how interested in authorial intentionality people are; I posted "Intentionally Omitted" primarily to clarify what Drout, Hodges and I were dancing around for the One Ringers.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions.

    duel vision Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • A growing interest in authorial autonomy and a "work-oriented" aesthetic pervaded theatrical criticism. [

    Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005

  • There are some writers for whom style supersedes character, for whom the "authorial" character is the main character, and their fiction doesn't suffer in the least from it.

    Style in Fiction 2009

  • Not surprisingly, the different temporal modes occasion very different kinds of "authorial" and "readerly" satisfaction (terms that I am asking to signify both lived and representational acts).

    How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006

  • A slightly different kind of authorial intention!?

    Blogging has seeped into your subconscious when... Richard Nokes 2006

  • And Herrmann's theory is that Hitchcock came to resent that; there's a kind of authorial envy there.

    'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense 2007

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