Meaning & use
scrivener
A person, especially in earlier times, employed to copy documents by hand or draw up legal papers.
See it in a sentence
The scrivener carefully copied the contract by hand before the invention of the printing press.
In the story, a quiet scrivener working in a law office refuses to do any more copying.
A note on using this word
Scrivener is now a historical or literary term, best known today from Herman Melville's story Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Words with a similar meaning
scribecopyist
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