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[ adjective ] written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence

Synonyms

epistolary

Examples

"an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs" "the epistolatory novel"

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after_school class I was enrolled .

Related terms

informal

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