Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A writer of essays.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A writer of an essay; one who practises the writing of essays.
Wiktionary
- n. One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A writer of an essay, or of essays.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a writer of literary works
Examples
“(Pick any male essayist from the 19th or 20th century, for that matter.)”
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“Jack London, the brilliant young author and essayist, is receiving congratulations upon the advent of a daughter.”
“Like Deni said - blogs ain't for the faint of heart - at least for anyone who isn't an 'essayist' - and I'll go to the head of the line on that.”
“2 The essayist is not identified in Jackson, Contributors and”
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“But in context, it appears to me that the essayist was a little carried away by enthusiasm.”
“An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.”
“Yet it is true that the essayist is the most sensitive of all writers to public opinion.”
“The essayist is a gentleman who chats to a world of gentlemen, and whose chat is shaped and coloured by a sense of what he owes to his company.”
“The essayist is a kind of poet in prose, and if questioned harshly as to his uses, he might be unable to render a better apology for his existence than a flower might.”
“I'd stick with "essayist" and "economist" and let the factions fight over you as they wish.”
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