Meaning & use
amanuensis
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A person employed to write down what someone else dictates, or to copy a manuscript.
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The elderly author dictated his final novel to an amanuensis.
Historians relied on the queen's amanuensis for records of her correspondence.
A note on using this word
A formal, somewhat old-fashioned word; today it's mostly used in historical or literary contexts.
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scribesecretary
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