epistolography

[ ih-pis-tl-og-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. the practices and principles of letter writing; art of epistolary composition.

Word History and Origins

Origin of epistolography¹

1885–90; < Latin epistol ( a ) epistle + -o- + -graphy

Example Sentences

The last but one was pronounced by a judge whose opinion I am sure you will agree with, because you will think it right, to be very dignified and a perfect specimen of epistolography.

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As far as mere bulk goes, Elizabethan epistolography would take no small place, just as it would claim no mean one in point of interest.

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During this Khalifate were also produced the earliest germs of stylistics, epistolography and mysticism, all of which were more fully developed under the Abbasides.

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Propagators of Antiquity; Epistolography: Latin Orators There were two purposes, however, for which the humanist was as indispensable to the republics as to princes or popes, namely, the official correspondence of the State, and the making of speeches on public and solemn occasions.

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