epistolizationn.
/ᵻˌpɪstəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ᵻˌpɪstl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ᵻˌpɪstələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ᵻˌpɪstəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Chiefly literary.
The writing of letters.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter-writing > [noun]
epistolizing1602
letter writing1637
epistolography1785
epistolization1803
lettering1813
letterizing1824
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 195 Remembrances that I always choose to forget in my epistolisation.
1861 H. A. Scott Skeleton in Cupboard (ed. 2) xviii. 126 This kind of correspondence..was not the voluntary outpourings of an unwatched pen. It was epistolization under the restraint of continual supervision.
1914 Biblical World 44 258/2 The irenicon..and the wisdom-epistle,..constituting the sources of the epistle in its canonical form, seem to have been preserved in the process of epistolization in their primitive integrity and completeness.
2010 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Dec. e1 If the current proliferation of food tattoos on chefs expresses mad food love through gastro-body art, Evans suggests that creative, playful, rebellious foodie sign-offs ‘represent a new phenomenon of gastro-epistling or gastro-epistolization’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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