单词 | writee |
释义 | writeen. rare. A person to or for whom a piece of writing is written, esp. the recipient of a letter; a reader.Typically as an ad hoc formation used in explicit contrast to writer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] readerOE overreaderc1443 peruser1549 writee?1611 reading man1684 ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiv. Comm. Where a man is vnderstood, there is euer a proportion betwixt the writers wit and the writees. 1821 Protestant 3 Mar. in W. McGavin Protestant Ess. (1835) II. cxxxviii. 217 A letter from a gentleman in England, to his friend in Ireland... I do not know the name of either the writer or the writee. 1912 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 20 119 Six days after the date of this letter both the writer..and the writee..were killed. 2014 Middlebury Mag. Winter 60/1 I read what others write, but I've always been content to be the writee and not the writer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.?1611 |
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