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lit., Lit
colloq. abbrev. of (a) literature. Cf. Lit. (b) literary a. Also used absol. = literary student, literary magazine. Also lit. crit., literary criticism; lit. ed., literary editor; lit. sup., literary supplement.
(a)1850[see Lit.]. 1870Geo. Eliot Let. 11 Feb. (1956) V. 77 The lentisc or mastich tree..figures both in Greek and Roman lit. 1946L. Durrell Let. 20 Oct. in Spirit of Place (1969) 87 In Athens I am going to see Seferis and Katsimbalis and give modern lit a bashing with them. 1959Observer 8 Mar. 22/2 Chadwick's opposition to tacking on ‘Lit’ to ‘Lang’, followed by his decision to leave the English Tripos. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) xii. 252 Perhaps if I should ever give a regional lit course. 1973P. Geddes Ottawa Allegation xiii. 173 She..worked in publishing... She was into Canadian Lit. before he could draw breath. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 103/3 You don't get much of that in Russian lit.
(b)1895W. B. Yeats Let. 20 Jan. (1954) ii. 245 Not one word was said about the Irish Lit Society and Prof Dowden expressed scorn for the Irish Lit movement. 1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 64 Lit, literary student. 1900Dialect Notes II. 45 Lit, n., the Literary Monthly, Quarterly, etc., a student publication. 1930English Jrnl. XIX. 632 Whatever wit or lightness of heart characterizes the magazines appears in the East; the Western ‘lits’ are in dead earnest. 1932H. Nicolson Diary 19 Oct. (1966) 122 Kingsley Martin..wants me to become the literary editor... But I..could not expect to make more than {pstlg}1,000 a year as Lit. Ed. 1932V. Woolf Let. in K. Martin Editor (1968) i. 30, I used to try to write regularly for The Times Lit. Sup. 1935N. Mitchison We have been Warned iv. 437 He showed her his reviews... The Lit. Sup. had been dull, the New Statesman annoying. 1936L. C. Douglas White Banners viii. 171 Naturally the ‘Lits’ began to view Professor Ward with a new respect. 1962M. Drabble Summer Bird-Cage xi. 206 ‘I could have guessed that from his books. They lack compassion.’ ‘How beautifully, how lit. critically you put it.’ 1963‘N. Blake’ Deadly Joker ii. 33 The Americans had..begun to make an industry of lit. crit. 1968Lebende Sprachen XIII. 110/2 Jet-age litcrit. 1968E. McGirr Lead-Lined Coffin ii. 44 Rostron sat making derisive noises over the Sunday lit. sups. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Apr. 401/5 The refingered worry-beads of lit-crit jargon. |