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Definition of Literary

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of literature. "Literary criticism"

2. Adjective. Knowledgeable about literature. "A literary style"

3. Adjective. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing. "When trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"

Definition of Literary

1. a. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.

Definition of Literary

1. Adjective. Relating to literature. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. ¹

3. Adjective. Knowledgeable of literature or writing. ¹

4. Adjective. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. ¹

5. Adjective. Bookish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Literary

1. of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of books and writings [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Literary

literalization literalizations literalize literalized literalizer literalizers literalizes literalizing literally literalness

literalnesses literals literarily literariness literarinesses literary (current term) literary agent literary argument literary composition literary critic

literary criticism literary device literary devices literary genre literary hack literary journalism literary language literary pirate literary review literary study

Literary usage of Literary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"HAVING examined some literary blunders, we will now proceed to the subject ... It is however matter of surprise, that several literary men should have felt ..."

2. Party Politics and English Journalism 1702-1742.: A Dissertation by David Harrison Stevens (1916)
"This was not accomplished by, but the effect of changing conditions had appeared in all social and literary activity. The London clubs and coffee-houses, ..."

3. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE AND THE ARTISTIC AND literary ENTHUSIASM OF THE RENAISSANCE WERE FOLLOWED BY THE ARTISTIC AND literary INDIFFERENCE AND THE ..."

4. Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection by Edward Everett (1840)
"THE CIRCUMSTANCES FAVORABLE TO literary IMPROVEMENT IN AMERICA* N MB. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN,—IN discharging the honorable trust, which you have assigned ..."

5. History of the English Revolution of 1640: Commonly Called the Great by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1846)
"SKETCHES OF MODERN LITERATURE AND literary MEN, ... y COEO y«rv widely known, as authors and literary men, but of whose personal historv ..."

6. Practical Authorship: A Work Designed to Afford Writers an Insight Into by James Knapp Reeve (1910)
"THOROUGH preparation for literary work is most desirable; but how few, in determining to enter upon a literary career, give to this any thought or attention ..."

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