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scrivener

[ skriv-ner ]

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noun

scrivener

/ ˈskrɪvnə /

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1325–75; Middle English scriveyner, equivalent to scrivein (< Old French escrivein; scribe ¹, -an ) + -er -er ¹

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C14: from scrivein clerk, from Old French escrivain, ultimately from Latin scrība scribe

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Scrivener hasn’t found any long-lasting negative effects of recreational scares.

Instead, he decided to take the test to become a judicial scrivener, a job similar to being a paralegal that has a 3 percent acceptance rate.

Scrivener is a Mac, Windows, and iOS app that is specifically designed to solve this problem.

Bartleby, the Scrivener must be the most famous short fiction in American literature.

Pete describes the local disarray in the methodical voice of the “Town Scrivener” he happens to be.

But perhaps the best way to read the Bush memoir is as the elusive pièce de résistance of the most loyal Bush scrivener.

White House veterans described how Michel became Bush's scrivener.

Memorandum: This morning one Mr. Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of which.

The scrivener did look up accordingly, with the action of an automaton which suddenly obeys the impulse of a pressed spring.

Without answering a single word, the scrivener sat down, and drew in proper form a full receipt for the money proffered.

So saying, he seized the scrivener by the collar, and shook him so vehemently, that he tore it from the cassock.

As for Florent Guillaume, he had been the best scrivener in the city.

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