belles-lettristic
English
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editbelles-lettristic (comparative more belles-lettristic, superlative most belles-lettristic)
- Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
- 1901, Nathan Stern, The Jewish historico-critical school of the nineteenth century[1], page 29:
- Reggio's works will always command respect on account of their belles-lettristic value.
- 1951, Richard Foster Jones, The Seventeenth Century:
- We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman...
- 1998, George B Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook:
- Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works...
- 2006, Ellie Chambers, Marshall W Gregory, Teaching and Learning English Literature:
- Belles-lettristic writing about literature developed the model of a thoughtful person sitting down with a literary work of life-long acquaintance...