belletrist
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- belletrism noun
- belletristic adjective
Example Sentences
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Wilson, a Harvard entomologist and the doyen of the belletrist arm of the conservation movement, who finds their hubristic ideas “as free of fear as they are of facts”.
From Economist • Aug. 3, 2017
He was a first-class belletrist, but he fell for a scam over a “lost poem” that Edgar Allan Poe allegedly wrote to cover a hotel bill in California.
From Scientific American • Sep. 10, 2013
In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for the rest, he has his peers, perhaps betters, as a novelist, belletrist, essayist and short-story writer, but they are different people in each case.
From Time Magazine Archive
That process was perhaps best described by Britain's belletrist of metaphysics, C.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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