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epistolary

/ih-pis-tl-er-ee/US // ɪˈpɪs tlˌɛr i //UK // (ɪˈpɪstələrɪ) //

书信式的,书信式,书信类,书信性的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.