Definition of Man of letters

1. Noun. A man devoted to literary or scholarly activities.

Generic synonyms: Humanist

Definition of Man of letters

1. Noun. a literary man ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Man Of Letters

man flu
man ho
man hour
man in the moon
man in the street
man is a wolf to man
man is the measure of all things
man jack
man magnet
man of God
man of action
man of affairs
man of deeds
man of few words
man of letters (current term)
man of means
man of one's word
man of parts
man of science
man of size
man of straw
man of the cloth
man of the hour
man of the world
man of war
man on
man on the Clapham omnibus
man on the street
man orchid

Literary usage of Man of letters

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

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1888)
"What other man of letters ever had such an apprenticeship in the art of writing as ... He had to study man, and * Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters. ..."

2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"The man of letters it accused of a cold indifference to the interests which ... Such is that life of self-oblivion of the man of letters, for rhich so many ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"THE man of letters From 'The Humor of France' LAST evening, a poet, ... A famous man of letters, who happened to be there, quickly caught hold of the young ..."

4. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1876)
"... THE man of letters. THE man who was as influential as any in planting the seeds of the transcendental philosophy in good soil, and in showing whither ..."

5. 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)
"As a man of letters Aymeric was in close touch with the learned men of his time. Pietro Crescenzio of Bologna completed his "De Re Rustica" at the repeated ..."

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