Epistolary Definition

ĭ-pĭstə-lĕrē
adjective
Of or suitable to letters or letter writing.
Webster's New World
Being in the form of a letter.
Epistolary exchanges.
American Heritage
Contained in or conducted by letters.
Webster's New World
Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters, as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • epistolatory

Origin of Epistolary

  • 1650s, from French épistolaire, from Latin epistolaris, from Latin epistola (“letter”) (English epistle), from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolē) from ἐπιστέλλω (epistellō, “I send a message”) from ἐπί (epi, “upon”) + στέλλω (stellō, “I prepare, send”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin epistolāris from epistola epistle epistle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Epistolary Sentence Examples

  • The epistolary intercourse with the former continued until 1780 and with the latter until 1787.

  • Their writings, like those of the apostles, are epistolary; but editions of the apostolic fathers now usually admit also the early Church order known as the Didache, the allegory entitled the Shepherd, and a short anonymous apology addressed to one Diognetus.

  • The epistolary style was further cultivated by Hamadhani (q.v.) and carried to perfection by Abu 1`Ala ul Ma`arri.

  • From Petrarch to the Epistolae obscurorum virorum there is a whole epistolary literature.

  • Viennet, a hot defender of lost causes, may be considered the latest of the epistolary poets of France.

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