fictionist
Americannoun
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Origin of fictionist
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Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane—a scene that “outrivals the ability of the fictionist to portray.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 1, 2017
And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Nura" has two older sisters, myself and Mary Blake Woodson, fictionist and long a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.
From Time Magazine Archive
We ascribed to him the faculties of a fictionist, and he used them when he said, “The truth is, that the tongue of slander was let loose upon her.”
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Both representations may be true or false in effect, according as the fictionist throws emphasis and manages light-and-shade.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
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