| 单词 | life-writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife-writer life-writer n. a biographer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer life-writer1611 biographer1644 biographista1661 biologist1686 memorialist1711 Boswell1857 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlvii. 264/2 He is by Amianus his Life-writer, condemned for mingling foolish doting superstitions, with the sincere doctrine of the Christian Religion. 1737 W. Warburton Let. 24 Nov. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1791) I. 3 Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux, are indeed strange insipid creatures. 1803 Edinb. Rev. July 427 Our author has..interfered with the province of the preacher and life writer. 1931 M. Longaker Eng. Biogr. in 18th Cent. ii. 66 Novelists and Life-writers viewed the life of man as a real experience. 1993 Boulevard Spring 171 Examples of confession in American literature include the early Puritan conversion and captivity narratives and such diverse life-writers as Thomas Merton, Richard Selzer, and Alice Koller. < as lemmas |
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