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amanuensis (glossary)

13 books mention “amanuensis”.


  1. Agent Pendergast: Book 10

    Fever Dream

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    amanuensis: a secretary

  2. Bleak House

    by Charles Dickens

    amanuensis: A person employed to perform handwriting for another person. Someone who takes dictation.

  3. Calligraphy of the Witch

    by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

    amanuensis: one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript

  4. The Uncommon Reader

    by Alan Bennett

    amanuensis: 'One who writes from dictation, copies manuscripts. A literary assistant'

  5. My Reading Life

    by Pat Conroy

    amanuensis: a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another;...

  6. The Schopenhauer Cure

    by Irvin D. Yalom

    amanuensis: –noun, plural -ses a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been...

  7. Toward the Gleam

    by T. M. Doran

    amanuensis: A literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.

  8. Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America

    by Robert S. Ellwood

    amanuensis: a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

  9. The Cinderella Complex

    Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

    by Colette Dowling

    amanuensis: one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript

  10. Scenes of Clerical Life

    by George Eliot

    amanuensis: A secretary, someone employed to reproduce or duplicate what someone else has written.


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