Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of writing letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of writing epistles.
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- noun The art or practice of writing
epistles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Novels, published in 1696, ‘The Life of Mrs. Behn written by one of the Fair Sex’, a frequently reprinted (and even expanded) compilation crowded with romantic incidents that savour all too strongly of the Italian novella, with sentimental epistolography and details which can but be accepted cautiously and in part.
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Italian classical tradition proper — in grammar and rhetoric, in epistolography and oratory.
HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968
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During this Khalifate were also produced the earliest germs of stylistics, epistolography and mysticism, all of which were more fully developed under the Abbasides.
Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867
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a frequently reprinted (and even expanded) compilation crowded with romantic incidents that savour all too strongly of the Italian novella, with sentimental epistolography and details which can but be accepted cautiously and in part.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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Here it is defined as the study of letter-writing subdivided into epistolography, the study of letters themselves, and epistolary theory, the study of letter-writing theory or dictamen.
Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present (review) Emil J. Polak 2023
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