单词 | epistolary |
释义 | epistolary From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Literatureepistolarye‧pis‧to‧la‧ry /ɪˈpɪstələri $ -leri/ adjective formalALwritten in the form of a letter or a series of letters an epistolary novelExamples from the Corpusepistolary• She is in no real need of epistolary adulation.• Richardsonian Principle, the, allusion to the fact that Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form.• It is an attempt to reuse the fictional form which first reached exhaustion, that of the epistolary novel.• The discovery of her own capacity for longing catapults Sabrina into a kind of epistolary sublime. |
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