Sentence example with the word 'literati'

literati

Definition n. the literary intelligentsia

Last update: September 13, 2016


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He is a literati.   [verb]

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The distinguished Latinists Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) and Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547) were papal secretaries, as well as the famous poet Bernardo Accolti (d.1534) Writers of poetry like Vida (1490-1566), Trissino (1478-1550), and Bibbiena (1470-1520), writers of novelle like Bandello, and a hundred other literati of the time were bishops;or papal scriptors or abbreviators, or in other papal employ.   [Please select]

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These officials at the same time are the most highly educated members of the family and are often called the "literati".   [Please select]

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Their names will be found in such limbos of the dead as Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of America" and Poe's "Literati."   [Please select]

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I wish you a very pleasant journey to Cambridge, and hope you will procure some names amongst the literati.   [Please select]

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We must also bear in mind that all of the Chinese painters were scholars, belonging to the class of the literati.   [Please select]

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[14] The literati, or lettered class, were the aristocracy in what was the most democratic of absolute monarchies.   [Please select]

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—Other words from the same root are, literally, illiteracy, literati, literature, literalize, literalist.   [Please select]

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