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Definition of Belletrists
1. belletrist [n] - See also: belletrist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belletrists
Literary usage of Belletrists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland (1894)
"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 ..."
2. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"We shall proceed in so doing approximately chronologically, thus beginning with
the so-called " belletrists" of the forties, ie, those who were brought ..."
3. History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow by Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1852)
"From Stockholm, as a centre, a regular conspiracy was organised among the
fashionable chivalry, the diplomatists, and the belletrists, against the military ..."
4. An Introduction to English Politics by John Mackinnon Robertson (1900)
"... which gave the immediate suggestion for the constitution of the English Royal
Society, contained almost no authors save belletrists and ecclesiastics. ..."
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