auctorialadj.
/ɔːkˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /ɔkˈtɔriəl/, /ɑkˈtɔriəl/ Of or pertaining to an author. (Cf. authorial adj.)
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1821 Examiner 300/1 Pricked to it..by auctorial jealousy.
1868 Blackwood Mag. July 74/2 Miss Hannah More's auctorial merits excited Peter's critical ire.
1900 M. H. Spielmann John Ruskin 65 What is his reflection on his own auctorial life?
1926 A. B. Smith Stud. & Caprices 153 Auctorial bias.
1949 R. Wellek & E. A. Warren Theory of Lit. iii. 27 Eliot makes the judgment of responsibility depend on both auctorial intention and historic effect.
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