belletristic

English edit

From belletrist +‎ -ic.

belletristic (comparative more belletristic, superlative most belletristic)

Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.
- 1986, Aizawa Seishisai (Translated by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi), Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825, Harvard University Press, page 169:
  […] if they do not owe their allegiance to shamanism or Buddhism, then most surely they commit themselves to some perverse form of Confucianism or belletristic foolishness.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 229:
  The guest list was a roll call of belletristic London.
Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
- 1992, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Translated by Leonard Wolf), The Certificate, Farrar Straus Giroux, page 1:
  I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.

pertaining to belles-lettres