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Man of letters

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A literary man; a scholar or author. dated

    "This may be accounted for largely on the ground that Cicero and Petrarch were men of the same temperament and cast of mind. They were both typical men of letters. The man of letters is intellectually alert; sensitive to impressions and able to report them; hospitable to all ideas of his time; […]"

  2. 2
    a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities wordnet

Etymology

Calque of French homme de lettres.

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