belletristic

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From belletrist +‎ -ic.

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belletristic (comparative more belletristic, superlative most belletristic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.
    • 1986, Aizawa Seishisai (Translated by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi), Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825, Harvard University Press, page 169:
      [] if they do not owe their allegiance to shamanism or Buddhism, then most surely they commit themselves to some perverse form of Confucianism or belletristic foolishness.
    • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 229:
      The guest list was a roll call of belletristic London.
  2. Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
    • 1992, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Translated by Leonard Wolf), The Certificate, Farrar Straus Giroux, page 1:
      I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.

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