literation
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His tastes run large to literation and poetry.'
From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
In other instances the literation in the aboriginal language of the nonesoteric songs and stories and their translation is necessary to comprehend the devices by which they are memorized rather than symbolized.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James
It should be noticed that Dr. Westcott's literation differs from that of Dr. Scrivener and Tregelles, which has been adopted here.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William
Make three patterns of words,––the first notable for 226 sheer selection, the second notable for rhythm, and the third notable for literation.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
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