scrivener
IPA: skrˈɪvnɝ
noun
- A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
- (obsolete) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
- A surname.
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Examples of "scrivener" in Sentences
- Yesterday's term was scrivener, which is defined as:
- John Milton was the son of a London scrivener, that is, a kind of lawyer.
- What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder.
- He was by business what was then called a scrivener, a term which has received judicial interpretation, and imported a person who arranged loans on mortgage, receiving a commission for so doing.
- A scrivener is a public copyist, but that noun has fallen into disuse except among notaries public; a scribe, once “a copyist of biblical texts,” is now used jocularly to mean “journalist,” and a scribbler is a put-down of a writer.
- A scrivener was a kind of cross between an attorney and a law stationer, whose principal business was the preparation of deeds, “to be well and truly done after my learning, skill, and science,” and with due regard to the interests of more exalted personages.
- A scrivener was a kind of cross between an attorney and a law stationer, whose principal business was the preparation of deeds, "to be well and truly done after my learning, skill, and science," and with due regard to the interests of more exalted personages.
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