Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A writer of essays.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of an essay; one who practises the writing of essays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of an essay, or of essays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who composes
essays ; awriter ofshort compositions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer of literary works
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Pick any male essayist from the 19th or 20th century, for that matter.)
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Jack London, the brilliant young author and essayist, is receiving congratulations upon the advent of a daughter.
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Like Deni said - blogs ain't for the faint of heart - at least for anyone who isn't an 'essayist' - and I'll go to the head of the line on that.
QUIBBLES & BITS 2006
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2 The essayist is not identified in Jackson, Contributors and
Notes on 'Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music' 2008
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But in context, it appears to me that the essayist was a little carried away by enthusiasm.
PRO-File Jack Bludis; Fred Blosser; Ed Lynskey Ed Gorman 2006
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But in context, it appears to me that the essayist was a little carried away by enthusiasm.
Archive 2006-12-01 Ed Gorman 2006
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An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990
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Yet it is true that the essayist is the most sensitive of all writers to public opinion.
The Common Reader 1925
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The essayist is a gentleman who chats to a world of gentlemen, and whose chat is shaped and coloured by a sense of what he owes to his company.
History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860
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The essayist is a kind of poet in prose, and if questioned harshly as to his uses, he might be unable to render a better apology for his existence than a flower might.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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