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Definition of Essayist

1. Noun. A writer of literary works.

Definition of Essayist

1. n. A writer of an essay, or of essays.

Definition of Essayist

1. Noun. One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions. ¹

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Definition of Essayist

1. a writer of essays (prose compositions) [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Essayist

Literary usage of Essayist

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

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Norris, novelist, i 8 10685; Jefferies, author of essays and stories, 14 8215; Allen, novelist and essayist, i 399; Balfour, philosophical essayist, 3 1287; ..."

2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"As an essayist, I have had myself some experience; probably more than is usual even with those of the same pro- _ fession, having been some years since ..."

3. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"CHAPTER XVIII BACON, JURIST, PHILOSOPHER, AND essayist MANY reasons conspire to give to Francis Bacon a position of peculiar prominence in any consideration ..."

4. The Metropolitan (1834)
"On the village green our essayist is as eminent as the Maypole itself, and makes your mind jump about with the celerity of a harlequin. ..."

5. Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Letters and by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1888)
"Graham the Quack—His ' Temple of Health '—His Lectures— The ' Goddess of Health '—The Blackwood essayist—His Argument—How It Falls to the Ground—The ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"For instance, about 1658, Mr. Lancelot Addison of Queen's, the father of the essayist, was compelled on his knees to implore the pardon of Convocation for ..."

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