Authorling

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A young or insignificant author.

    "It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]"

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"It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]"

Etymology

From author + -ling.

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