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English
Etymology
From write, possibly modelled on talkative.
Adjective
writative (comparative more writative, superlative most writative)
- (archaic, rare) Inclined to much writing.
- 1736, August 17, Alexander Pope, letter LXXXII to Jonathan Swift, pages 247–248:
- I Find, tho’ I have leſs experience than you, the truth of what you told me ſome time ago, that increaſe of years makes men more talkative but leſs writative: to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain buſineſs, or plain how-d’ye’s, to thoſe few I am forced to correſpond with, either out of neceſſity, or love: And I grow Laconic even beyond Laconiciſme; for ſometimes I return only Yes, or No, to queſtionary or petitionary Epiſtles of half a yard long.
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