Crossword-Solution: VERBALIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Verbalist | n. | A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “VERBALIST”
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| person who deals with words alone, rather than facts, ideas, feeling, etc | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VERBALIST (5)
Price, 75 cents_ FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK and LONDON _FORCEFUL SPEAKING BY NEW METHODS_ THE ESSENTIALS OF ELOCUTION _Revised, Enlarged, New Matter_ By ALFRED AYRES _Author of "The Orthoepist," "The Verbalist," etc., etc._ A unique and valuable guide on the art of speaking the language so as to make the thought it expresses clear and impressive.
THE VERBALIST: _A MANUAL_ DEVOTED TO BRIEF DISCUSSIONS OF THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG USE OF WORDS AND TO SOME OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THOSE WHO WOULD SPEAK AND WRITE WITH PROPRIETY.
The elder student was content with correcting the examples of bad English in Blair's "Rhetoric." Later, he read "The Dean's English," very popular at one time, Richard Grant White's "Words and Their Uses," and perhaps a little book called "The Verbalist." To this, one of the most bewildering books on the manner of writing English ever written, Herbert Spencer's "Philosophy of Style" was added.
The Verbalist: A Manual devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words, and to some other Matters of Interest to those who would Speak and Write with Propriety, including a Treatise on Punctuation.
Carefully revised and annotated by ALFRED AYRES, _Author of "The Orthoëpist," "The Verbalist," etc._ "The only amusing grammar in the world."--HENRY LYTTON BULWER.