literary_study has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) the humanistic study of literature

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary_study in the development of conscience - most_of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life , or , for the theologians of_course , to the influence of religion .

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