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Word Meanings - SENSATIONALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

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  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • ADVOCATE
    advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • SENSATIONALISM
    The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • SPEAKERSHIP
    The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
  • SPEAKER
    1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • BELIEVER
    One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
  • WRITHE
    to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
  • SENSATIONALIST
    An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
  • WRITTEN
    p. p. of Write, v.
  • WRITE
    to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
  • WRITABILITY
    Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.
  • SENSATIONAL
    1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
  • SPEAK
    1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
  • WRITHEN
    Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.
  • SPEAKING
    1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • UNDERWRITING
    The business of an underwriter,
  • BESPEAKER
    One who bespeaks.
  • OUTSPEAK
    1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
  • UNDERWRITER
    One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
  • UNBESPEAK
    To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
  • UNWRITE
    To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
  • FORSPEAK
    1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.

 

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