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A writer.

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Usage examples (37)
  • He preferred the term scribe to writer.
  • Surely this toadstool masquerading as a scribe is aware THAT THIS BOOK HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN!
  • And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
  • A scribe is reading, from a papyrus scroll, a list of complaints against him, a diatribe of supposed crimes against his own empire.
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