Word of the Day: WRITATIVE

ETYMOLOGY
from write (vb.) + -ative; after talkative

EXAMPLE
“… I find, tho’ I have less experience than you, the truth of what you told me some time ago, that increase of years makes men more talkative but less writative: to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain business, or plain how-d’ye’s, to those few I am forced to correspond with, either out of necessity, or love …”

From: The Works of Alexander Pope, 1741
Letters to and from Dr. Swift, &c.
Letter LXXXI, August, 17, 1736

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