单词 | story writer |
释义 | story writern. 1. A writer of history; a historian, a chronicler. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian historian?a1439 historierc1449 storierc1449 story writer?c1475 histographera1513 historician1531 historiographer1542 historic1599 historianess1683 memorialist1711 logographer1846 logograph1862 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian > official historiographc1450 story writer?c1475 historiographer1555 ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 121v A Story Writter, historiographus. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras ii. 25 Then wrote the kynge to Rathimus the story wryter [Gk. τῳ̑ γράϕοντι τὰ προσπίπτοντα]. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Story writer, historiographus. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 407 The particular remembrances of such use..either neuer were in being, for want of Story-writers in barbarous times..or [etc.]. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. 113 That Story-writer's mentioning Pipin King of Aquitane. 1734 Present State Republick Lett. 14 313 All our Story-Writers of the last and present Age are not indeed infected with equal Degrees of Partiality. 1810 Crit. Rev. Jan. 17 These neglected story-writers [sc. monastic chroniclers] deserve to be much more familiar to the public than they yet have been. 1900 in J. Hawthorne et al. Lit. All Nations & All Ages II. 322 The veteran story-writer [sc. Jean Froissart] left his parish and went to Ghent, where he was kept busy gathering his accounts of Flemish affairs. 2. A writer of stories or tales; (in later use) spec. a short-story writer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller > story-writer storyteller1727 story writer1747 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story > writer of story writer1747 conteur1857 novelettist1883 noveletter1907 short-storyist1936 1747 H. Fielding in S. Fielding Familiar Lett. David Simple I. Pref. p. vii The Novel or Story-Writer. 1751 London Daily Advertiser 13 May xxiv. 102 I shall avoid the He said and I said of our modern Story-tellers, and Story-writers. 1839 N.-Y. Mirror 19 Jan. 238/1 Is this..the creation of a florid storywriter—the flimsy heroine of a foolish novel? 1889 Green Bag Nov. 467/1 Only the fervid imagination of the story-writer of the day. 1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 135 Frank Stockton, perhaps the most thoroughly original of modern story-writers. 1993 Paragraph Summer 10/2 He is simply a more talented story-writer than novelist. 2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Feb. 30/2 The potential fluffiness of the sentiment is in part what makes Saunders remarkable as a story writer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1475 |
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