单词 | letter writing |
释义 | > as lemmasletter writing letter writing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter-writing > [noun] epistolizing1602 letter writing1637 epistolography1785 epistolization1803 lettering1813 letterizing1824 1637 J. Bastwick Answer Information Sir J. Bancks 17/1 If every Letter-writing and booke then that is penned with judgment carry its owne sense and meaning in it..dare any man be so bold and audacious as to say that the Letters and Proclamations of the King of heaven and God of the whole world can not bee understood? 1737 Universal Spectator 3 Dec. 1/1 I may say more..on Letter-Writing in general, at some other time. 1788 W. Cowper Let. 6 Dec. (1982) III. 238 My Letter writing time is spent and I must now to Homer. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VI. xlix. 235 He varied his style of letter writing according to the character..of his..correspondents. 1904 J. R. Robinson 50 Years Fleet St. 236 The passion for letter-writing to newspapers is recognised in Fleet Street as a distinct form of mental aberration. 1957 G. Frick tr. ‘M. Yourcenar’ Coup de Grâce 16 Conrad was not of the letter-writing type. 2002 J. W. Hall Hot Damn! 43 She is as emphatic in her letter writing as she is in person. < as lemmas |
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