escritorial

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adjective

Of or pertaining to writing.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveescritorial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to writing.

    Ruling this confined estate as if it were an escritorial fiefdom must be a drag. Or so I would imagine.

    2013, Raúl Salinas, Louis G. Mendoza, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen, page 71
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    Despite his patronage of the escritorial arts, he was not a reader, so he tried storytellers and soon became bored.

    1987, Ernest Kellogg Gann, The Triumph, page 292

    The escritorial component is a writing of attenuated comfort, atomistic consciousness echoing one form of holocaust or the other.

    1992, Joseph McMinn, The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, page 76

    The clichés and the tropisms seem to play the roles of the escritorial Scylla and Charybdis . The writing vacillates constantly between one and the other, without being able to settle down anywhere.

    2004, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Reinventions of the Novel, page 236

    In addition to food and clothing I was carrying another bag full of treats for the locals, and writing materials necessary for my escritorial duties.

    2009, John Vaughn, Unconfirmed Reports, page 183
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APA

escritorial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/escritorial

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “escritorial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/escritorial.

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