amanuensis

In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018

Despite, or perhaps because of, her privileged role as the headmistress’s amanuensis, Jane is one of the most vociferous voices of dissent against the practice of self-erasure in the name of necromancy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

The expense, which must also have been great, is said to have been defrayed by Ambrosius, a wealthy Christian friend, who placed at the disposal of the editor the constant services of seven amanuenses.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen

I have never less than two horses, usually five or six amanuenses.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

Most of the money he received for the work went to pay his six amanuenses.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

A gentleman connected with a large corporation, who employs two lady amanuenses, and obtains positions for others, says that he could secure situations for two or three a week.

From Work for Women by George J. Manson