Boswell

[ boz-wel, -wuhl ]

noun

1. James, 1740–95, Scottish author: biographer of Samuel Johnson.
2. any devoted biographer of a specific person.

Boswell

/ ˈbɒzwəl; bɒzˈwɛlɪən /

noun

1. BoswellJames17401795MScottishWRITING: authorWRITING: biographerLAW: lawyer James . 1740–95, Scottish author and lawyer, noted particularly for his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

Derived Forms

• Boswellian, adjective

Other Words From

• Bos·well·i·an [boz-, wel, -ee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

Tom Boswell, one of the great baseball chroniclers of that or any other time, covered the Orioles in the '70s and '80s.

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The Kentucky bard Ed McClanahan once lived in California, where among various endeavors he played Boswell to the Grateful Dead.

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But Tom Boswell makes it all look easy, gliding between the seasons with appreciation and acerbic wit.

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None of the officials will be able to get their old jobs back, and Boswell will not return as the head of diplomatic security.

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Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing.

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Jamie Boswell contended that cookery was the criterion of reason; for that no animal but man did cook.

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Boswell gives the following poem on snuff, in his "Shrubs of Parnassus:"

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He has put down to Boswell what was undoubtedly said by Johnson; what the latter did, and what the former could not say.

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His Life by his satellite Boswell holds the first place among biographies as a triumph of portraiture.

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A branch of the great Gypsy family of Boswell have contracted the surname to Boss.

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