epistolary
书信式的,书信式,书信类,书信性的
Definitions
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- : contained in or carried on by letters: an epistolary friendship.
- : of, relating to, or consisting of letters.
Examples
The two struck up an epistolary romance and were married in 1969.
It reads like a fully realized epistolary novel, by turns exasperating and poignant and always funny.
Epistolary novels often function best as exercises in pacing.
The Antagonist By Lynn Coady An intelligent and witty epistolary investigation of destiny and loyalty.
From a modern epistolary adventure to a portrait of gentrifying Tribeca.
Chatwin's tone throughout Under the Sun recalls the Duchess of Devonshire's epistolary adieu, "In tearing haste—."
Alexander Pope died: the celebrated English poet and epistolary writer.
No accomplishment within the scope of human knowledge is so beautiful in all its features as that of epistolary correspondence.
Society and study and hardly a moment be ever found for Epistolary Commerce.
Franchomme, too, granted me the privilege of copying his friend's epistolary communications.
Epistolary forms and fashions have had their mutations like all other human things.