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belletrist, -lettrist|bɛlˈlɛtrɪst|
Also 9 belles-lettreist.
[f. belles-lettres n. pl. + -ist.]
One devoted to belles-lettres. attrib. or as adj. = belletristic a.
1816Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 193 The great Quintilian, or any of his worthy disciples the French Belles-lettreists. 1858De Quincey Whiggism Wks. VI. 130 As an orator, an essayist, or, generally, as a bellettrist. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 40 The belletrist essays of Mr. Lowell have had a wide public. 1894J. Davidson Ballads & Songs 38 Heed not bellethrist [sic] jargon. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 108 No amount of sedulous apery or word-mosaic will make a writer of the dilettante bellelettrist.
Hence belˈletrism, the study or composition of belles-lettres.
1938Scrutiny VII. 208 Her university..could only be a breeding-ground for boudoir scholarship..and belletrism. 1961Essays in Crit. XI. 196 Some of the assumptions he has innocently taken over from stock Victorian-romantic theory..serve only for effusions of belletrism such as this. |