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[ ih-pis-tl-er-ee ] / ɪˈpɪs tlˌɛr i /
adjectivecontained in or carried on by letters: an epistolary friendship. of, relating to, or consisting of letters. Origin of epistolaryFirst recorded in 1650–60, epistolary is from the Latin word epistolāris of, belonging to a letter. See epistle, -ar1 OTHER WORDS FROM epistolaryun·e·pis·to·lar·y, adjectiveWords nearby epistolaryepisternum, epistle, epistler, epistle side, Epistle to the Galatians, epistolary, epistolary novel, epistoler, epistolic, epistolize, epistolography Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for epistolaryEpistolary novels often function best as exercises in pacing. This Week’s Hot Reads: Jan. 21, 2013|Nicholas Mancusi|January 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST Chatwin's tone throughout Under the Sun recalls the Duchess of Devonshire's epistolary adieu, "In tearing haste—." The Enigmatic Nomad|Kirk Davis Swinehart|February 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST It is as if the Zodiac Killer and the Unabomber were having an epistolary debate in the newspaper. Headless Bodies in Endless War|Bryan Curtis|June 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST Dear Sir,—I am very grateful for your kind letter and the pleasure of making your acquaintance even through an epistolary medium. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1|Elizabeth Bisland
He had the good fortune to succeed in the epistolary way once before. Clarissa Harlowe, Volume 9 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson His advocates admit that they are to be judged rather by the rules of oratorical than epistolary composition. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam It was to gratify the two great passions of asking and answering, that epistolary correspondence was first invented. The Biglow Papers|James Russell Lowell And personally I find my epistolary faculties collapse at about 100° in the shade. Letters from Mesopotamia|Robert Palmer
British Dictionary definitions for epistolaryepistolaryarchaic epistolatory
adjectiverelating to, denoting, conducted by, or contained in letters (of a novel or other work) constructed in the form of a series of letters Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |