Meanings
nounbook-answerer (plural book-answerers)
plural book-answerers
- obsoleteA critic.
If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book anſwerers, as well as a monument from the guardians of the temple.
1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XIII. From the same.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 45
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