Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who, before the invention of printing, copied books for sale.
  • noun A writer of textbooks and compends: as, a legal text-writer.

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Examples

  • Edward Coke, the only text-writer who can be vouched for the position, that a woman's vote ought not to be received at a parliamentary election.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

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