belletrist

Example Sentences

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Wilson, a Harvard entomologist and the doyen of the belletrist arm of the conservation movement, who finds their hubristic ideas “as free of fear as they are of facts”.

From Economist • Aug. 3, 2017

He was a first-class belletrist, but he fell for a scam over a “lost poem” that Edgar Allan Poe allegedly wrote to cover a hotel bill in California.

From Scientific American • Sep. 10, 2013

FitzGerald, a mid-Victorian belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for the rest, he has his peers, perhaps betters, as a novelist, belletrist, essayist and short-story writer, but they are different people in each case.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today.

From Time Magazine Archive