literary
/ˈlɪt.əˌɹɛɹ.i/ adjective B1- Relating to literature. · literary fame· a literary history
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. · a literary man
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Bookish.
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Should I ever get out of prison and find in all Italy a printer courageous enough to publish what I have composed, my literary reputation is forever secured.”
At each moment, in the midst of the crowd, the buzzing, and the laughter, the door-keeper’s voice was heard announcing some name well known in the financial department, respected in the army, or illustrious in the literary world, and which was acknowledged by a slight movement in the different groups.
He is a lecturer and a consultant, but he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work.
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
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