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Definition of Anecdotists
1. anecdotist [n] - See also: anecdotist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anecdotists
Literary usage of Anecdotists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts about Art by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1888)
"In conversation, Leslie belonged to the class of anecdotists. ... Perhaps it is
as well that anecdotists should not predominate in society, ..."
2. Art and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"The Landscape men, here and there, edged brightly into popular favour, but it
was the anecdotists—Leighton, Millais, Poyn- ter, Orchardson, Richmond, ..."
3. Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander by John Pentland Mahaffy (1902)
"We are indebted to the invaluable Plutarch for having collected from numerous
anecdotists these slighter touches in the portraits of the great Periclean ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"The anecdotists speak very kindly of his practical jokes. Mohun was scarcely out
of prison for his second homicide, when he went on Lord Macclesfield's ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... we know but snatches of idle gossip, or the inventions of disappointed anecdotists.
All these personages are, however, the constituents of the Periclean ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen (1898)
"The anecdotists speak very kindly of his practical )okes. Mohun was scarcely out
of prison for his second homicide, when he went on Lord Macclesfield's ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... Journalists, anecdotists, Satirists, in both Hemispheres, is, in every sense,
a " Celebrated Trial," and belongs to Publishers of such. ..."
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