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belles-lettristic

belles-lettristic adjective: pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.

Adjective

belles-lettristic (comparative more belles-lettristic, superlative most belles-lettristic)

  1. Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
    • Reggio's works will always command respect on account of their belles-lettristic value.1901, Nathan Stern, The Jewish historico-critical school of the nineteenth century, page 29
    • We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman...1951, Richard Foster Jones, The Seventeenth Century

Examples of belles-lettristic in a sentence

  • Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works...1998, George B Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook:
  • Belles-lettristic writing about literature developed the model of a thoughtful person sitting down with a literary work of life-long acquaintance...2006, Ellie Chambers, Marshall W Gregory, Teaching and Learning English Literature:

Forms of belles-lettristic

comparativemore belles-lettristic
superlativemost belles-lettristic

Questions about belles-lettristic

What does belles-lettristic mean?
Belles-lettristic means pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
How do you use belles-lettristic in a sentence?
Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works...
What part of speech is belles-lettristic?
Belles-lettristic is an adjective.

Words near belles-lettristic in the dictionary

  1. belles lettres
  2. belles of the ball
  3. belles sabreuses
  4. belles-letters
  5. belles-lettres
  6. belles-lettristic
  7. belleter
  8. belleters
  9. belletrism
  10. belletrist
  11. belletristic

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