escritorial

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Adjective

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escritorial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to writing.
    • 1987, Ernest Kellogg Gann, The Triumph, page 292:
      Despite his patronage of the escritorial arts, he was not a reader, so he tried storytellers and soon became bored.
    • 1992, Joseph McMinn, The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, page 76:
      The escritorial component is a writing of attenuated comfort, atomistic consciousness echoing one form of holocaust or the other.
    • 2004, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Reinventions of the Novel, page 236:
      The clichés and the tropisms seem to play the roles of the escritorial Scylla and Charybdis . The writing vacillates constantly between one and the other, without being able to settle down anywhere.
    • 2009, John Vaughn, Unconfirmed Reports, page 183:
      In addition to food and clothing I was carrying another bag full of treats for the locals, and writing materials necessary for my escritorial duties.
    • 2013, Raúl Salinas, Louis G. Mendoza, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen, page 71:
      Ruling this confined estate as if it were an escritorial fiefdom must be a drag. Or so I would imagine.