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- pluralplural of letter
- Literature.
Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.
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He thoroughly believed in the supremacy of Common Sense in the domain of letters; took exception, at times, to Hawthorne's prose, because it was undernatural; […]
1893, Bibliotheca sacra: a theological quarterly (volume 50, page 41) - The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.
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He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.
1899, John Buchan, The Far Islands
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of letter
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