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Definition of Belletrist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belletrist
Literary usage of Belletrist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of Private Libraries: Liste de Bibliothèques Privées. Verzeichniss Von by Georg Hedeler (1898)
"klass. und belletrist. littérature classique et de bel - close uf the 18th century.
Litt, bis Ende des 18. Jahrh. les lettres. ..."
2. The Fallacy of Saving: A Study in Economics by John Mackinnon Robertson (1892)
"There is a certain sombre fascination in this species of pessimism that especially
captures the belletrist mind, even that mind which, in resentment of ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"... luminous generalisation which prov that even he is not so exclusively preoccupied
philology as to be incapable of an occasional ' belletrist excursion. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... and stern Demosthenes thundered; and how a fine German " belletrist," in the
midst of such a gay scene, "cannot but feel every moment ¡is if some sturdy ..."
5. Classical Weekly (1910)
"Also in jeder Beziehung ein belletrist." The seventh chapter. Der Gesamtplan des
Werkes, investigates the time of composition and publication of the ..."
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