Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Distinctively literary; exercising or manifesting special care for literary form or style.

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  • Their physique is feminine; they are fanciful, dainty, reserved; they are literose, sophisticated in craftsmanship, but innocently unaware of the profound agitations of American life, of life everywhere.

    American Literature 1921

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  • Studiedly or affectedly literary.

    October 15, 2008