Definition of Literateness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Literateness

literary device
literary devices
literary genre
literary hack
literary journalism
literary language
literary pirate
literary review
literary study
literary technique
literary theory
literary work
literate
literate person
literately
literateness (current term)
literatenesses
literates
literateur
literateurs
literateuse
literateuses
literati
literatim
literation
literations
literato
literator
literators
literatuer

Literary usage of Literateness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This mysterious document, which is still extant is written in a feigned hand, with an affectation of it literateness and in the obscurest of styles. ..."

2. Russia and Reform by Bernard Pares (1907)
"the wrong road, not because it is literateness, but because it is so often ... It is generally what is called " little literateness," but the war has in ..."

3. Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified by Herbert Spencer (1865)
"... was blushed for by her companions ; a tolerable proof that people's feelings then blamed in a woman that literateness which it is now ..."

4. The Yellow Book (1897)
"... now as much felt by a class craving for elegance as the greater literateness of the south had been formerly felt by a generation thirsting for letters. ..."

5. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1876)
"... a tolerable proof that people's feelings then blamed in a woman that literateness which it is now thought a disgrace for her to be without. ..."

6. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"Tensor analysts after Ricci and Levi-Civita insisted on a rigid calculational literateness which hid many interesting things.) In this appendix I will give ..."

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