autographist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who collects or authenticates autographs.
Example Sentences
- "He was particularly famous as an autographist, however, and his judgment in all matters concerning the genuineness and value of autographs was unerring."
- "Above all things, my dear autographist, get your victim's name correct, do not add insult to injury."
- "[Joseph] Kyselak, who described himself as an "autographist," was no innovator either."
- "It was quite a troublesome task to keep the autographists within their proper limits, but I was very peremptory—though jocosely so, of course—upon the subject."
- "The autographists have not been very happy in their quotations."
- "Where no modern editing has been done on a number. with an 18th century edition merely being handed over to an autographist or engraver for re-copying, it is all too easy for careless, incorrect 20th century reprints to result."