📚 noun • entry_id 2598
man of letters
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hombre de letras • literato
A literary man; a scholar or author.
He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters; […] he had abandoned his real calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women's weekly, where…
This may be accounted for largely on the ground that Cicero and Petrarch were men of the same temperament and cast of mind. They were both typical men of letters. The man of letter…
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