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comparative more literary, superlative most literary
Relating to literature. quotations examples
He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. quotations examples
in the literary as well as fashionable world
1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
Knowledgeable of literature or writing. examples
Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. examples
Bookish. examples