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Synonyms for essayist
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : es-ey-ist |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛs eɪ ɪst |
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Définition 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
- 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
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