As pay was Lady Anne's object, and poor Georgiana was intended to be the amanuensis, should she be found capable of forming sentences out of disjointed hints, and of wrapping foul facts in clean composition.
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Amanuensis
//əˌmænjuˈɛnsɪs//
Synonyms for "amanuensis" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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25 translations across 9 languages.
Czech
1 entries- stenotypist noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
Dutch
4 entries- kopiist noun (one employed to take dictation)
- schrijver op dictaat noun (one employed to take dictation)
- secretaris noun (one employed to take dictation)
- stenograaf noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
French
3 entries- copieur noun (one employed to take dictation)
- secretaire noun (one employed to take dictation)
- sténographe noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
German
4 entries- Kopist noun (one employed to take dictation)
- Schreiber noun (one employed to take dictation)
- Schreiber noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
- Schreiberin noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
Irish
2 entries- scríobhaí noun (one employed to take dictation)
- scríobhaí noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
Italian
1 entries- amanuense noun (one employed to take dictation)
Polish
2 entries- osobisty sekretarz piszący pod dyktando noun (one employed to take dictation)
- skryba noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
Portuguese
3 entries- amanuense noun (one employed to take dictation)
- amanuense noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
- escrevente noun (a clerk, secretary or stenographer)
Spanish
1 entries- amanuense noun (one employed to take dictation)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
In consequence of this fashion of authors dictating their works, expedition came to be considered of the utmost importance; it was regarded as the chief accomplishment of an amanuensis; and he alone was considered as perfect in his art, whose pen could equal the rapidity of utterance: […]
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“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[…]”
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I, his mere amanuensis, am left to do what little I can to keep the institution functioning.
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