This week's theme: words about books.
auctorial (ok-TOR-ee-uhl) adjective
Pertaining to an author
[From Latin auctor (author, creator), from augere (to create). Ultimately
from the Indo-European root aug- (increase) which is also the source of
auction, authorize, inaugurate, augment, august, auxiliary, and nickname
("a nickname" is a splitting of the earlier "an ekename", literally, an
additional name).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=auctorial
-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)
"[Edna] O'Brien's credo seems to be that the only revenge is to survive.
Mind you, she does not shirk from taking her own auctorial revenge on
those characters who did wrong by Nell."
Maire Crowe; Digging The Well of Loneliness; Irish Voice (New York);
Aug 18, 1992.
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