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Epistolary

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

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Informal 84% connected

Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, w…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Informal 84% connected

Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, w…

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Epistle 74% connected

A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Epistle 74% connected

A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

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Acceptableness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

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The act of adding; application; accretion.

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Confusable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being confused.

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a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics

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English adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

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Grammar noun · 78% connection

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Juxtaposition verb · 78% connection

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

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Mistakable adjective · 78% connection

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.

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pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

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Acrostic noun · 78% connection

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a…

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Alectryomancy noun · 78% connection

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

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Alphabet noun · 78% connection

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

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Anagram noun · 78% connection

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

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Antilegomena n. pl. · 78% connection

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are t…

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the…

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Cadmean adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the…

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Capital letter noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Communication noun · 78% connection

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Dental adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

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Deuterocanonical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, epistles, letters, suitable, correspondence.
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Energy noun · 78% connection

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies…

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Epistler noun · 78% connection

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

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Epistolean noun · 78% connection

One who writes epistles; a correspondent.

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