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  • noun Plural form of belletrist.

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Examples

  • Evidently, we should not have talked about the interest in Jack London among the wide audience of Russian readers nor even about his influence on our belletrists and cultural activists.

    THE STEPS LEAD TO THE FUTURE 2003

  • At that time, the author of Martin Eden and Iron Heel was not among the respected belletrists of his country.

    THE STEPS LEAD TO THE FUTURE 2003

  • My reading may seem to the reader to have been more limited than it was, because I have not mentioned the historians, essayists, or belletrists whose works are read more or less by "almost everybody."

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • But it also accepted performance-based projects, like songs and interpretive dances, while budding belletrists were allowed to submit essays linking the statue to an environmental theme.

    NYT > Home Page By ABIGAIL MEISEL 2011

  • True, readers might complain that some well-worn favorites or mega-belletrists like St. Paul get a mere paragraph or two-and in this apostle's case, he shares those paragraphs with the Sufi mystic Ibn Abbad of Ronda-but such complaints can't travel very far, simply because they're to be leveled against books written to different purpose.

    The American Spectator Katherine Eastland 2010

  • True, readers might complain that some well-worn favorites or mega-belletrists like St. Paul get a mere paragraph or two-and in this apostle's case, he shares those paragraphs with the Sufi mystic Ibn Abbad of Ronda-but such complaints can't travel very far, simply because they're to be leveled against books written to different purpose.

    The American Spectator Katherine Eastland 2010

  • George Bowering, Margaret Atwood and a host of lesser known belletrists, all of whom hovered like bugs around the shining light of Ameliasburgh from the 1960s until Purdy's death in

    GotPoetry.com News 2009

  • One of the few belletrists to make use of quasi malediction in fiction is Peter De Vries.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1 1983

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