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essayˈistic, a.
[f. essay n. + -istic.]
In the style of a literary essay, or of an exposition; discursive, informal; essay-writing.
1862Independent (N.Y.) 29 May 3/6 Good specimens of De Quincey's writings—autobiographical, narrative, critical, and essayistic. 1895Thinker VIII. 404 The young pastor thinks himself obliged by the weight of custom to press much that is humanistic and essayistic into the ministrations of the truth. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 768/4 It is as difficult to predict for him an essayistic future as it is for Mr. James Laver. 1936Wirth & Shils tr. Mannheim's Ideology & Utopia i. 47 This essayistic-experimental attitude in thought also explains why here and there repetitions have not been eliminated. 1960K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) iv. 88 Even at his most essayistic, Wylie shows none of that complacent indifference to his reader. |