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Antonyms for essayist

Grammar : Noun
Spell : es-ey-ist
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛs eɪ ɪst


Definition of essayist

Origin :
  • c.1600, from essay (n.) + -ist. French essayiste (19c.) is from English.
  • As in author : noun composer of written work
  • As in writer : noun person who composes with language
Example sentences :
  • An American essayist bids us "keep our eyes on the fixed stars."
  • Extract from : « Three Addresses to Girls at School » by James Maurice Wilson
  • Blessed with these attributes he is an essayist to some purpose.
  • Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley
  • Yet it is not Inspiration for his Subject alone that makes the Essayist.
  • Extract from : « Maxim Gorki » by Hans Ostwald
  • The essayist remained musing on all the occurrences of the night.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • No essayist has so much feeling against terraces and villas.
  • Extract from : « The Children » by Alice Meynell
  • An essayist, on the other hand, starts with an idea and clothes it.
  • Extract from : « Gilbert Keith Chesterton » by Patrick Braybrooke
  • Dickens was not in any sense an essayist; Chesterton is one in every sense.
  • Extract from : « Gilbert Keith Chesterton » by Patrick Braybrooke
  • As an essayist, Chesterton stands apart from his contemporaries.
  • Extract from : « Gilbert Keith Chesterton » by Patrick Braybrooke
  • Montaigne the Essayist alone is emphatically the Montaigne that survives.
  • Extract from : « Classic French Course in English » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
  • Tilton aspired to be a novelist, an essayist, a poet, an orator.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 » by Elbert Hubbard

Synonyms for essayist

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