bookwright

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English

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Etymology

From book +‎ wright.

Noun

bookwright (plural bookwrights)

  1. A writer of books; an author.
    • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, “Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character”, in The Reviewer: Lord Jeffrey, page 219:
      Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.
    • 1880, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Friendship of Books, page 18:
      But their punishment is a singular one. They wished to pass for men of the world, and not for vulgar bookwrights. We are obliged to regard them as bookwrights simply, and not as men at all. There is one exception.
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